Patent ID: 6898727

Claim:
A method of performing electronic commerce, comprising acts of: hosting an electronic commerce site on a first host computer; detecting a change in operation of the electronic commerce site; and automatically configuring a second host computer to host at least a portion of the electronic commerce site on the second host computer in response to the act of detecting; wherein the act of detecting includes an act of detecting at least one of a failure and a malfunction of the electronic commerce site; wherein the first host computer is coupled to at least one first storage device that is accessible to the first host computer and in which data of the first host computer is stored; and wherein the act of automatically configuring the second host computer includes an act of: replicating the data of the first host computer from the at least one first storage device to at least one second storage device that is accessible to the second host computer, wherein the act of replicating the data includes an act of making the data available to the second host computer without the first host computer copying the data from the at least one first storage device and without the second host computer copying the data to the at least one second storage device.