Patent ID: 8793529

Claim:
A method, comprising: establishing an expected traffic load to be processed by a plurality of servers, each server having an actual capacity for processing a traffic load portion of the expected traffic load, a pre-established redundancy factor, and a failure state redundancy factor; reserving a combined redundant capacity across the plurality of servers by utilizing each pre-established redundancy factor particular to each server to: allocate a portion of the actual capacity of each server to a respective redundant capacity that is unavailable to that server for processing the traffic load portion, and allocate a remaining portion of the actual capacity of each server to an available capacity, wherein each available capacity aggregates to a combined available capacity across the plurality of servers that corresponds to the expected traffic load; and when at least one of the plurality of servers fails: dynamically altering each available capacity of each server of the plurality of servers that remains active by utilizing each pre-established redundancy factor particular to each server to an altered available capacity, wherein the altered available capacity uses at least a portion of the respective redundant capacity to continue to process the expected traffic load despite a loss of the actual capacity of the at least one of the plurality of servers that failed, and reserving a subsequent combined redundant capacity across each server of the plurality of servers that remains active by utilizing each failure state redundancy factor.