Patent ID: 8275868

Claim:
A system, comprising: A) a first datacenter located in a first geographic location, said first datacenter comprising at least one hosting server; B) a second datacenter located in a second geographic location, said second datacenter comprising at least one hosting server; C) a hosting services website hosted on at least one customer interaction server, said hosting services website configured to offer a registrant of a domain name a choice of website hosting options comprising: i) hosting at least one customer website resolving from said domain name in said first datacenter; ii) hosting said at least one customer website in said second datacenter; and iii) hosting said at least one customer website in both said first datacenter and said second datacenter, wherein at least one of said at least one customer interaction server is further configured to, if said registrant selects hosting said at least one customer website in both said first datacenter and said second datacenter, provision said at least one hosting server in said first datacenter and said at least one hosting server in said second datacenter to host said at least one customer website; D) a routing server communicatively coupled to said network, said routing server configured to: i) receive a request for a plurality of said customer website's content; and ii) route said request to a responding datacenter selected from the group consisting of said first datacenter and said second datacenter by determining whether said request will receive a faster response from said first datacenter or said second datacenter; and E) a network communicatively coupling said first datacenter, said second datacenter, said routing server, and said customer interaction server.