Patent ID: 7657622

Claim:
A system for delivering an integrated web hosting and content distribution affording a predetermined service operational performance level to an individual client, comprising: a first web hosting server for a web site; at least one content distribution network; a redirection means for receiving DNS requests from access devices through a local DNS; and monitoring means for monitoring operational performance parameters of the first web hosting server and the at least one content distribution network, wherein the redirection means and the monitoring means are, and the at least one content distribution network being under operational control of a primary service provider, of the individual client; wherein, based on signals from the monitoring means, the redirection means of the primary service provider returns a record to the local DNS indicating whether or not the first web hosting server is capable of meeting the predetermined operational service performance level for each DNS request received from the local DNS, and the redirection means sending the local DNS a record including an IP address of the first web hosting server for each DNS request received from the local DNS when a performance value is below a predetermined operational performance level threshold, and the redirection means sending the local DNS a different record causing the local DNS to make a subsequent DNS request to a DNS of the at least one content distribution network for each DNS request received from the local DNS when the performance value is equal to or above the predetermined operational performance level threshold.