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1 US B2 (12) United States Patent Parsons et a. (10) Patent N0.: (45) Date of Patent: US 8,589,474 B2 *Nov. 19, 2013 (54) (75) (73) (21) (22) (65) (51) (52) (58) (56) SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOFTWARE AND FILE ACCESS VIA A DOMAIN NAME Inventors: Robert Parsons, Scottsdae, AZ (US); Warren Ademan, Scottsdae, AZ (US); Michae Chadwick, Chander, AZ (US); Eric Wagner, Scottsdae, AZ (US) Assignee: Notice: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC, Scottsdae, AZ (US) Subject to any discaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 608 days. This patent is subject to a termina dis caimer. App. N0.: 12/140,460 Fied: Jun. 17, 2008 Prior Pubication Data US 2009/ A1 Dec. 17, 2009 Int. C. G06F 15/16 ( ) US. C. USPC /203; 725/39; 725/51 Fied of Cassi?cation Search USPC /203 See appication?e for compete search history. References Cited U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 5,809,242 A 9/1998 Shaw et a1. 5,819,285 A 10/1998 Damico et a1. 5,887,133 A 3/1999 Brown et a1. 6,085,229 A 7/2000 Newman et a1. 6,671,715 B1 12/2003 Langseth et a1. 6,868,444 B1 * 3/2005 Kim et a /223 7,099,948 B2 8/2006 Tormasov et a1. 7,197,545 B1 * 3/2007 Davie /220 7,414,981 B2 * 8/2008 Jaramio et a /252 7,487,546 B1 2/2009 SZor 2002/ A1* 10/2002 Roth et a / / A1 * 4/2003 Bottom et a / / A1* 6/2003 Robb et a /1 2003/ A1* 12/2003 Reisman 725/ / A1 * 5/2004 Fynn et a / / A1 10/2004 Kothari et a / A1* 3/2005 Shedon / / A1* 4/2005 McMian et a / / A1 10/2005 King et a / A1* 5/2006 Kumar et a /4 2006/ A1* 6/2006 Armstrong et a / / A1 1/2007 Gaea 2007/ A1 6/2007 Patrawaa 2007/ A1 * 8/2007 Bourges-Sevenier et a / / A1 2/2008 Brown 2008/ A1 6/2008 Ead et a / A1* 10/2009 Arthursson / / A1 12/2009 Parsons et a / A1 12/2009 Parsons et a / A1 12/2009 Parsons et a / A1 12/2009 Parsons et a1. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Pesk 8.3 for Windows Administrators Guide, 2007, SWsoft Hod ings, Ltd., Revision 1.0, A Pages.* (Continued) Primary Examiner * Tauqir Hussain (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Chris A. Watt (57) ABSTRACT Systems and methods of the present invention aow for a thin cient which may be provided with a domain name in a part nership between a ho sting provider, an ISP and/ or a thin cient retaier. The cient may be used to access a remote computer or server in the hosting provider s data center. 16 Caims, 10 Drawing Sheets Cient M 0 <4 Cient Retaers) M Domain Name E Internet Service and/or LQQ Cient Software 1Q Web Browser E and/or Remote Desktop ( Onine Vendor(s) M Coud computing andor_ C for additiona software ind/or utii ties Hosting Provider 1_o_5 Data Center m Storage Area Network/Additiona Storage Space m Hosting Contro Center Authenticated Remote M &5 Additiona computer 0 Computer in and/or 5 er g5 comprising instaed 05, ' system, sottware and utiities Porta Website m and/or remote access to 08, tie system and software

2 US 8,589,474 B2 Page 2 (56) References Cited OTHER PUBLICATIONS Unpubished U.S. App. No. 10/407,967. Unpubished U.S. App. No. 10/703,245. Unpubished U.S. App. No. 10/811,616. Unpubished U.S. App. No. 11/708,737. Unpubished U.S. App. No. 11/708,736. Unpubished U.S. App. No. 11/708,729. Unpubished U.S. App. No. 11/708,976. Unpubished U.S. App. No. 11/746,505. Unpubished U.S. App. No. 12/024,785. Unpubished U.S. App. No. 12/024,764. Unpubished U.S. App. No. 12/024,793. Unpubished U.S. App. No. 12/024,802. Peter Gai, Microsoft ooks ahead, Magazine, eweek, Mar. 3, 2008, pp Mar. 4, 2010 Non-Fina Of?ce Action in reated appication No Mar. 4, 2010 Non-Fina Of?ce Action in reated appication No Getting Started With Linux Shared Hosting, Dec. 7, 2006,20, A. Mar. 18, Non-Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,450 (Pub ication US A1). May 24, 2011 Response to Mar. 18, 2011 Non-Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,450 (Pubication US A1). Apr. 1, 2011 Non-Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,454 (Pub ication US A1). May 24, 2011 Response to Apr. 1, 2011 Non-Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,454 (Pubication US A1). Apr. 15, 2011 Non-Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,459 (Pub ication US A1). May 24, 2011 Response to Apr. 15, 2011 Non-Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,459 (Pubication US A1). Aric Peterson, cpane User Guide and Tutoria, Mar. 2006, Packt Pubishing, A. Getting Started With Windows Shared Hosting, Apr. 9, 2007, Godaddy, Version 2.1. Ju. 25, 2011 Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,450 (Pubica tion US A1). Sep. 28, 2011 Response (Appea) to Ju. 25, 2011 Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,450 (Pubication US A1). Ju. 25, 2011 Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,454 (Pubica tion US A1). Sep. 28, 2011 Response (Appea) to Ju. 25, 2011 Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,454 (Pubication US A1). Ju. 25, 2011 Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,459 (Pubica tion US A1). Sep. 28, 2011 Response (Appea) to Ju. 25, 2011 Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,459 (Pubication US A1). Pesk 8.3 forwindows Administrator s Guide, 2007, SWsoft Hod ings, Ltd., Revision 1.0, A Pages. Chris Karakas, and Caudio Erba, PHP-Nuke: Management and Programing, Revision Feb. 1, 2005, A Pages. Aug. 17, 2010 Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,450 (Pubica tion US A1). Nov. 10,2010 Response to Aug. 17,2010 Fina Rejection, U.S.App. No. 12/140,450 (Pubication US A1). Aug. 18, 2010 Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,454 (Pubica tion US A1). Nov. 10,2010 Response to Aug. 18,2010 Fina Rejection, U.S.App. No. 12/140,454 (Pubication US A1). Aug. 16, 2010 Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,459 (Pubica tion US A1). Nov. 10,2010 Response to Aug. 16,2010 Fina Rejection, U.S.App. No. 12/140,459 (Pubication US A1). Aug. 6, 2010 Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,460 (Pubica tion US A1). Nov. 8, 2010 Response to Aug. 6, 2010 Fina Rejection, U.S. App. No. 12/140,460 (Pubication US A1). * cited by examiner

3 ' US. Patent Nov. 19, 2013 Sheet 1 0f 10 US 8,589,474 B2 - Cient i 4* Cient - Cient Software 170 Doma'" Onine Name 1i Web and/or Remote Internet Service Desktop Coud and/or Instaation - comput'ng and/0r. Community for additiona software and/or utiities A V Hosting Provider@ Data Center E Storage Area Network/Additiona Storage Space 11_5 Authenticated Remote Hosting Contro Center 14_5 Additiona computer or Computer E and/or Server E comprising instaed OS, fie system, software and utiities Porta Website m and/or remote access to 08, fie system and software FIG. 1

4 US. Patent Nov. 19, 2013 Sheet 2 0f 10 US 8,589,474 Map the Domain Name to a Computer Hosted in a Data Center of a Hosting Provider - m, Log in and use a Hosting Contro Center to insta any combination of patches, upgrades, software, etc. as necessary - Q Provide the Registrant with Computer software access via a Remote Desktop Program on a Cient resoving from the Domain Name - m Provide access to software or utiities to be purchased and/or instaed on the Computer via coud computing or an onine Community - E Storage area network the Computer with Additiona Computer(s) to provide Additiona Storage Space to the Registrant - E i) FIG. 2

5 US. Patent Nov. 19, 2013 Sheet 3 0f 10 US 8,589,474 Register Domain Name to Registrant - w, Map a Domain Name to a Porta hosted on a Server in a Data Center of Hosting Provider - m Log in and use a Hosting Contro Center to insta any combination of patches, upgrades, software, etc. as necessary - Q Provide the Registrant with Porta Website access via Cient software resoving from the Domain Name - w Provide access to software or utiities to be purchased and/or added to the Porta via coud computing or an onine Community - w Storage area network the Server with additiona computer(s) to provide Additiona Storage Space to the Registrant -@ E) FIG. 3

6 US. Patent Nov. 19, 2013 Sheet 4 0f 10 US 8,589,474 B2 Cient Web Browser 17_5 and/or Remote Desktop Program Network I00 Porta Website m Authenticated Remote Porta Web Links m or Direct Access Domains Q Community / oniine server-side software or Website Storage Area/other storage - I W 4 Fie Storage Management Emai Webpage m Porta Management Webpage/other contro Means for generating Direct Access Domains Means for generating Access FIG. 4

7 US. Patent Nov. 19, 2013 Sheet 5 0f 10 US 8,589,474 B2 Cient 165 Cient Software E Web Browser i? and/or Remote Desktop Network m Storage Area Network/Additiona Storage Space 11_5 Server E One or more Porta Website E additiona computers Links m or Direct Access 130 Website Storage Area/other storage areas w Fie Storage Management Means for generating Direct Access Fies, documents, backups, appication insta packages, offine storage space, software, etc. 5_00 FIG. 5

8 US. Patent Nov. 19, 2013 Sheet 6 0f 10 US 8,589,474 Host Porta and/or Website Storage Area which resove from a Domain Name on at east one Server -@ Aow Cient to connect to, access and dispay the Porta - i Provide Porta Web Pages having inks or other means to seect Porta Web Pages- E, Generate Direct Access Domains via input on Porta Management Web Page for direct access to Porta Web Pages -@ Generate Direct Access Domains via input on Fie Storage Management Webpage for direct access to stored fies - E Storage area network Server with other computer(s) to provide unimited Additiona Storage Space - FIG. 6

9 US. Patent Nov. 19, 2013 Sheet 7 0f 10 US 8,589,474 B2 Cient 16 Branded Thick Laptop, simpe inexpensive PC, mobie phone, hybrid dumb cient etc. m Cient Software 170 Web Browser? and/or Remote Desktop Domain Name 1i Porta gateway dispay E FIG. 7

10 US. Patent Nov. 19, 2013 Sheet 8 0f 10 US 8,589,474 Partner Hosting Provider, ISP with Instaation Infrastructure and/or Thick Cient Retaier - E Brand and/or co-market Thick Cient to refect partnership - w Provide Registrant with Thick Cient in conjunction with registering a Domain Name - E Aow access to Porta gateway incuding Porta Web Pages resoving from registered Domain Name -@ Network service provided by ISP - Q Connect Thick Cient to Storage Area Network with additiona computer(s) to expand storage space on Thick Cient - w (1) FIG. 8

11 US. Patent Nov. 19, 2013 Sheet 9 0f 10 US 8,589,474 B2 Cient i Branded Thin Cient E Set top box, TV thin cient, mobie phone, dumb cient, etc. m Cient Software E Web Browser? and/or Remote Desktop Domain Name 1i Porta gateway dispay E FIG. 9

12 US. Patent Nov. 19, 2013 Sheet 10 0f 10 US 8,589,474 Partner Hosting Provider, ISP with Instaation Infrastructure and/or Thin Cient Retaier Brand and/or co-market Thin Cient to refect partnership Provide Registrant with Thin Cient in conjunction with registering a Domain Name Aow access to Porta gateway incuding Porta Web Pages resoving from registered Domain Name Network service provided by ISP Connect Thin Cient to Storage Area Network with additiona computer(s) to expand storage space on Thin Cient (1) FIG. 10

13 1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOFTWARE AND FILE ACCESS VIA A DOMAIN NAME CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS This patent appication is reated to the foowing concur renty-?ed patent appications: US. patent appication Ser. No. 12/ 140,454, DIRECT ACCESS DOMAIN-BASED COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH SOFTWARE AND FILE ACCESS. US. patent appication Ser. No. 12/ 140,459, BRANDED AND COMARKETED DOMAIN-BASED THICK CLIENT SYSTEM. US. patent appication Ser. No. 12/140,460, BRANDED AND COMARKETED DOMAIN-BASED THIN CLIENT SYSTEM. The subject matter of a patent appications is commony owned and assigned to Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC. A prior appications are incorporated herein in their entirety by reference FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention generay reates to the?ed of Domain Names and Remote Computing and, more speci? cay, systems and methods for using a domain name in con junction With a cient to access a remote computer or server system in a hosting provider s data center. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION A network is a coection of inks and nodes (e. g., mutipe computers and/ or other devices connected together) arranged so that information may be passed from one part of the net Work to another over mutipe inks and through various nodes. Exampes of networks incude the Internet, the pubic switched teephone network, the goba Teex network, com puter networks (e.g., an intranet, an extranet, a oca-area network, or a Wide-area network), Wired networks, and Wire ess networks. The Internet is a WordWide network of computers and computer networks arranged to aow the easy and robust exchange of information between computer users. Hundreds of miions of peope around the Word have access to com puters connected to the Internet via Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Content providers pace mutimedia information (e. g., text, graphics, audio, video, animation, and other forms of data) at speci?c ocations on the Internet referred to as Web sites. The combination of a the Websites and their corre sponding Web pages on the Internet is generay known as the Word Wide Web (WWW) or simpy the Web. Some Internet users, typicay those that are arger and more sophisticated, may provide their own hardware, soft Ware, and connections to the Internet. But many Internet users either do not have the resources avaiabe or do not Want to create and maintain the infrastructure necessary to ho st their own Websites. To assist such individuas (or entities), hosting companies exist that offer Website hosting services. These hosting providers typicay provide the hardware, software, and eectronic communication means necessary to connect mutipe Websites to the Internet. A singe hosting provider may iteray host thousands of Websites on one or more hosting servers. BroWsers are abe to ocate speci?c Websites because each Website, resource, and computer on the Internet has a unique Internet Protoco (IP) address. Presenty, there are two stan US 8,589,474 B dards for IP addresses. The oder IP address standard, often caed IPVersion 4 (IPv4), is a 32-bit binary number, Which is typicay shown in dotted decima notation, Where four 8-bit bytes are separated by a dot from each other (e.g., ). The notation is used to improve human read abiity. The newer IP address standard, often caed IPVersion 6 (IPv6) or Next Generation Internet Protoco (IPng), is a 128-bit binary number. The standard human readabe nota tion for IPv6 addresses presents the address as eight 16-bit hexadecima Words, each separated by a coon (e.g., 2EDC: BA :0000:CF8A:000C:2154:7313). IP addresses, however, even in human readabe notation, are dif?cut for peope to remember and use. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is much easier to remember and may be used to point to any computer, directory, or?e on the Internet. A browser is abe to access a Website on the Internet through the use of a URL. The URL may incude a Hypertext Transfer Protoco (HTTP) request combined With the Web site s Internet address, aso known as the Website s domain name. An exampe of a URL With a HTTP request and domain name is: In this exampe, the http identi?es the URL as a HTTP request and the com panyname.com is the domain name. Domain names are much easier to remember and use than their corresponding IP addresses. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approves some Generic Top-Leve Domains (gtld) and deegates the responsibiity to a particuar organization (a registry ) for maintaining an authoritative source for the registered domain names Within a TLD and their corresponding IP addresses. For certain TLDs (e.g.,.biz,.info,.name, and.org) the regis try is aso the authoritative source for contact information reated to the domain name and is referred to as a thick registry. For other TLDs (e. g.,.com and.net) ony the domain name, registrar identi?cation, and name server information is stored Within the registry, and a registrar is the authoritative source for the contact information reated to the domain name. Such registries are referred to as thin registries. Most gtlds are organized through a centra domain name Shared Registration System (SRS) based on their TLD. The usemame/password system is a common form of secret authentication data used to contro Website access. The usemame/password is kept secret from those not aowed access. Those Wishing to gain access are tested on Whether or not they have a vaid (recognized) usemame and Whether they know the associated password. Internet users are granted or denied access to Websites accordingy. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides systems and methods for using a domain name in conjunction With a cient to access a remote computer or server system in a ho sting provider s data center, thus overcoming substantia imitations in the reevant art. In an exampe embodiment, a computer or server may be hosted in a data center of a hosting provider, Wherein the hosting provider may be capabe of updating the computer or server as needed. The computer or server may comprise a puraity of virtua environments and/or a porta Website With at east one onine community, at east one Website storage area, at east one porta management Webpage accessibe to the registrant or hosting provider after successfu authentica tion, at east one emai Webpage, or any combination thereof The computer or server may be part of a storage area network, thereby creating unimited additiona storage space for the computer or server.

14 3 A domain name may be registered to a registrant, Who may aso be provided With a co-marketed and/ or branded thick or thin cient. The cient may use the domain name to access the computer or server remotey, using a remote desktop pro gram, a Web browser or other cient software, and may access the computer or server via an infrastructure provided by a broadband or intemet service provider. An exempary method of hosting a remote computer or server in a hosting data center may comprise a puraity of steps incuding registering a domain name to a registrant. FooWing the registration of the domain name, the domain name may be mapped to a computer or server in a data center of a hosting provider, and the hosting provider may provide updates as needed to the computer or server. The registrant may then be provided With authenticated remote access, via a remote desktop program on a cient to the?e system and one or more virtua environments on the computer or server. Coud computing may be used to insta additiona software or utiities needed by the Registrant or for any other needed appications of coud computing. As more space is needed, the computer may be storage area networked to provide unimited additiona storage space as needed by the user. Another exempary method of hosting a porta Website on a hosting computer or server in a data center of a hosting provider may comprise a puraity of steps incuding register ing a domain name to a registrant. FooWing the registration of the domain name, the domain name may be mapped to a porta on the hosting computer or server, and the server may be updated as needed by the hosting provider. The registrant may then be provided With remote access, via a browser or other cient software on a cient to the porta. Coud comput ing may be used to insta additiona software or utiities needed by the registrant or for any other needed appications of coud computing. As more space is needed, the computer or server may be storage area networked to provide unimited additiona storage space as needed by the user. An exempary remote computer or server system in a ho st ing provider s data center may compri se at east one computer or server in a data center of a hosting provider owned by the hosting provider and communicativey couped to a network, Wherein the hosting provider is capabe of updating the com puter or server as necessary. The connection to the network may be provided by an infrastructure owned and/ or operated by a broadband or intemet service provider. A domain name registered to a registrant and entered into a remote desktop program, a Web browser and/or other cient software on a thick or thin cient may be used to access the computer or server or a porta Website on the hosting com puter or server. The thick or thin cient may be branded and co-marketed in a partnership between a hosting provider, a broadband and/or Internet Service Provider, a thick and/or thin cient retaier or any combination thereof. The porta may further comprise a puraity of porta Web pages on the porta Website having direct access domains, inks and/or other means for seecting or accessing at east one community Webpage or other onine software or utiities, at east one Website storage area or other storage areas, at east one porta management Webpage or other contro panes accessibe to the registrant after successfu authentication, at east one emai Webpage, or any combination thereof. The computer or server may be communicativey couped to a storage area network, Which may provide unimited addi tiona storage space to the registrant. The community Webpage and/or coud computing may aso be used to aow the registrant to access, downoad and/or insta additiona software or utiities or any other needed appication of coud computing. US 8,589,474 B The above features and advantages of the present invention Wi be better understood from the foowing detaied descrip tion taken in conjunction With the accompanying drawings. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 iustrates a possibe streamined embodiment of a remote computer or server system. FIG. 2 is a How diagram iustrating a possibe embodiment of a method for hosting a remote computer or server in a hosting data center. FIG. 3 is a How diagram iustrating another possibe embodiment of a method for hosting a remote computer or server in a hosting data center. FIG. 4 iustrates a possibe embodiment of a porta on a remote computer or server system. FIG. 5 iustrates a possibe embodiment of a Website stor age area on a remote computer or server system. FIG. 6 is a How diagram iustrating a possibe embodiment of a method for hosting a porta on a computer or server in a hosting data center. FIG. 7 iustrates a possibe embodiment of a branded thick cient system. FIG. 8 is a How diagram iustrating a possibe embodiment of a method for branding and co-marketing a branded thick cient system. FIG. 9 iustrates a possibe embodiment of a branded thin cient system. FIG. 10 is a How diagram iustrating a possibe embodi ment of a method for branding and co-marketing a branded thin cient system. DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present inventions Wi now be discussed in detai With regard to the attached drawing?gures Which Were brie?y described above. In the foowing description, numerous spe ci?c detais are set forth iustrating the Appicant s best mode for practicing the invention and enabing one of ordinary ski in the art to make and use the invention. It Wi be obvious, however, to one skied in the art that the present invention may be practiced Without many of these speci?c detais. In other instances, We-knoWn machines, structures, and method steps have not been described in particuar detai in order to avoid unnecessariy obscuring the present invention. Uness otherwise indicated, ike parts and method steps are referred to With ike reference numeras. A streamined Remote Computer and/ or Server System As shown in a streamined exampe embodiment of a remote computer and/or server system shown in FIG. 1, the remote computer and/or server system may incude a Net Work 100. A Hosting Provider 105 may host one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/or Additiona Computers 130 in a Data Center 110 owned by the Hosting Provider 105 and communicativey couped to the NetWork 100. The one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/or Additiona Com puters 130 may be communicativey couped to each other and to the NetWork 100 and con?gured in such a Way as to constitute a Storage Area NetWork 115 Which may provide unimited Additiona Storage Space 115 for appications,?es, documents, backups, software, etc. A Hosting Contro Center (HCC) 145 may be used by the Hosting Provider 105 to access, restart or insta, possiby automaticay, one or more patches, upgrades, backups, appications, utiities, soft Ware or any combination thereof for the Computers 120, Servers 125 and/or Additiona Computers 130.

15 5 The exampe embodiments herein pace no imitation on network con?guration or connectivity. Thus, as non-imiting exampes, the Network 100 coud comprise the Internet, an intranet, an extranet, a oca area network, a wide area net work, a wired network, a wireess network, a teephone net work, any other network now known in the art or ater deve oped in the future or any combination thereof. The Hosting Provider 105 may provide hosting services incuding, but not imited to hosting one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/or Additiona Computers 130 in a Data Center 110 as we as providing the genera infrastructure necessary to offer hosting services to Internet users incuding hardware, software, Internet web sites, hosting servers, and eectronic communication means necessary to connect mu tipe Computers 120, Servers 125 and/oradditiona Comput ers 130 to the Internet or any other Network 100. The genera infrastructure necessary to offer hosting and/ or Internet services as described above is not imited to the Hosting Provider 105. Any Broadband or other Internet Ser vice Provider (ISP) with an Internet Service or any other soution based on TCP/IP networks or con?gurations may provide an Internet Service and/ or Instaation Infrastructure 160 to aow connection to the Internet or other Network 100. Such infrastructures may be simiary compatibe with the con?guration of the system and methods discosed herein thereby aowing the ISP to partner with the Hosting Provider 105 to insta, provide services and maintain such hardware, software, Internet web sites, hosting servers, eectronic com munication or other means necessary to connect mutipe Computers 120, Servers 125, Additiona Computers 130 and/ or Cients 165 to the Internet or any other Network 100. The ISP described above may be de?ned as a company or business that provides broadband or other access to the Inter net and reated services. Non-imiting exampes of ISP-spe ci?c services may incude, but are not imited to dia-up, DSL possiby as ADSL, Broadband wireess access, Cabe modem, FTTH, ISDN possiby as BRI, DSL possiby as SHDSL or ADSL, Ethernet, Metro Ethernet, Gigabit Ether net, Frame Reay, ISDN possiby as BRI or PRI, ATM, sate ite Internet access and SONET. In addition to providing hosting or other Internet services, the Hosting Provider 105 may aso offer other products and services, especiay those that a user may be ikey to pur chase. For exampe, the Hosting Provider 105 may aso be a registrar or reseer of domain names, an issuer of SSL cer ti?cates and may aso se other products reated to domain names, hosting services, and eectronic commerce, incuding being a Cient Retaier 185 or Onine Vendor 190 of software or other products or services. Thus, in the current invention, the Hosting Provider 105 may have the means to both register a Domain Name 155 to the Registrant 150 as we as map the Domain Name 155 to the Computer 120 and/or Server 125 hosted in the Data Center 110, both of which are discosed in greater detai beow. The one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/oraddi tiona Computers 130 may be any computer or program that provides services to other computers, programs, or users either in the same computer or over a computer Network 100. As non-imiting exampes, the one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/or Additiona Computers 130 coud be an appication, communication, mai, database, proxy, fax,?e, media, web, peer-to-peer, software or standaone computer which may contain an operating system, a fu?e system, a puraity of other necessary utiities software or appications or any combination thereof on the one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/or Additiona Computers 130. The one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/oradditiona Com US 8,589,474 B puters 130 may ikewise have any server capabiities utiizing any server technoogy or format known in the art or deveoped in the future, possiby, but not imited to, a shared hosting server, a virtua dedicated hosting server, a dedicated hosting server, or any combination thereof. The Server 125 may have the hardware and software needed for dedicated hosting, virtua dedicated hosting, shared hosting, managed hosting, temporary time siced ho st ing, and/ or any other types of ho sting that are currenty known or wi be deveoped in the future. Dedicated hosting may pace a singe hosted web site on a singe hosting Server 125. This provides a user with the maximum amount of resources (bandwidth, memory space, etc.), but it is aso the most expensive. Virtua dedicated hosting aows a puraity of users to be paced on a singe Server 125. Software may be used on the virtua dedicated Server(s) 125 to provide much of the same functionaity as dedicated hosting, with ower cost. Shared hosting aows a very arge number, potentiay thousands, of users to use the resources of a singe Server 125. This greaty owers the cost, but aso may imit the capabii ties and resources that may be used by each shared user. The one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/oraddi tiona Computers 130 may be ocated and hosted in a singe Data Center 110 faciity owned by the Hosting Provider 105. A Cient 165, discussed in more detai beow, may act as a head to the system, thus aowing the Computer 120 and/or Server 125 to operate under headess operation. In other words, the ony required hardware for the Computer 120 or Server 125 may incude an Ethernet card and at east one Cient 165. No monitor or keyboard need be attached to the Computer 120 or Server 125 and no peripheras such as a video card need be incuded. Thus, the Computer 120 and/or Server 125 in the Data Center 000 may operate effectivey with no dedicated hardware. Due to practica considerations, mutipe Data Centers 110 may be required if a singe Data Center 110 is not abe to physicay house and provide a resources needed. If a pu raity of Data Centers 110 is used, they may be connected via a high speed network such as a Loca Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), Internet or other high speed packet-switched network as discosed esewhere in this appi cation and incorporated herein by reference. Each Data Cen ter 110 may have a centra hub coordinating the Computers 120, Servers 125 and/or Additiona Computers 130 at that Data Center with other centra hub(s), thereby coordinating the Computers 120, Servers 125 and/or Additiona Comput ers 130 in their respective Data Center(s) 110. The Computer 120, Server 125 and/or any Additiona Computer 130 or compimentary Cient 165 may be commu nicativey couped to a Network 100 via any method of net work connection known in the art or deveoped in the future incuding, but not imited to wired, wireess, modem, dia-up, sateite, cabe modem, Digita Subscriber Line (DSL), Asymmetric Digita Subscribers Line (ASDL), Virtua Pri vate Network (VPN), Integrated Services Digita Network (ISDN), X25, Ethernet, token ring, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), IP over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Infrared Data Association (IrDA), wireess, WAN technoogies (T, Frame Reay), Point-to-Point Protoco over Ethernet (PPPoE), and/or any combination thereof. In the non-imiting exampe embodiment shown in FIG. 1, Authenticated Remote Access 135 may be provided to any instaed Operating System (OS),?e system, software, utii ties or any combination thereof on the Computer 120 and/or Server 125. Authentication for the Authenticated Remote Access 135 may be de?ned as the process of attempting to verify the identity of the sender of a communication, such as

16 7 a request to og in or access a resource. The thing being authenticated may be, but is not imited to, a person using a Cient 165 or other system, a computer itsef, or a computer program. As non-imiting exampes, authentication may utiize any Weak or strong authentication system known in the art or deveoped in the future, such as usemame/password, cha enge/response, OpenID, MICROSOFT CARDSPACE, any Singe Sign-On (SSO) methodoogy, Pubic Key Infrastruc ture (PKI), digita signatures, Zero-knoWedge proofs, Ker beros, smart card, biometrics (retina, voice,?ngerprint, or DNA recognition) and/or and combination thereof. The authentication environment may further be secured With anti virus software,?rewaing and/or at east one virtua private network. There shoud be no imitation on the type of OS or?e system Which may be instaed, accessed and/ or used on the one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/or Additiona Computers 130 in the Data Center 110 or on the compimen tary Cient 165. As non-imiting exampes, an OS based on WINDOWS, UNIX, MAC OS etc. may be instaed and used on any of the aforementioned systems. Linux may be preferred in such a network environment for a puraity of reasons, incuding, but not imited to the foow ing: a compete absence of icensing costs for the operating system on Computers 120, Servers 125 and/or Additiona Computers 130; ow risks of virus attacks; VMWare support for mutipe operating systems and other major protocos for?e sharing and other tasks; ow system requirements for running Linux on an Inte-based Computer 120 and/or Server 125 Which may aso offer Linux termina server possibiities. Linux termina server is a non-imiting exampe of any of the puraity of termina server or remote desktop programs avaiabe in the art Which may be used in conjunction With the current invention. Any such termina service or remote desk top program may be a con?guration interface Which aows the appication to run on the Computer 120 or Server 125 Whie the user interface is rendered on any compatibe remote Cient 165. The termina server or remote desktop program may further aow the upoading and downoading of?es between the Computer 120, Server 125 and/or Additiona Computer 130 and the remote Cient 165. This con?guration interface may aso act as a Remote Desktop Protoco (RDP) gateway, aowing remote contro of the Computer 120 or Server 125 over the Internet, or any other network soution based on TCP/IP networks or NetWorks 100 simiary com patibe With the con?guration discosed herein. The operating system and fu?e system may utiize vir tuaization to aow mutipe users to access the resources avaiabe in the Data Center 110 of the Hosting Provider 105. VirtuaiZation or Virtua Private Hosting (V PH) may be de?ned as a method of partitioning a physica Computer 120 or Server 125 into mutipe operating systems, environments (aso referred to as containers) and/or servers such that each has the appearance and capabiities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each instaed virtua environment and/ or server may run its own fu-?edged instaed OS, and each environment or server may be independenty rebooted, pos siby via the HCC 145 described above and incorporated herein by reference. TWo kinds of virtuaizations may exist and be used in the Data Center 110 environment: hardware based and operating system or software based. In a hardware-based virtuaization environment, the virtu aization mechanism may partition the rea hardware resources. Non-imiting exampes of hardware-based virtua ization may incude but are not imited to Microsoft Virtua Server, QEMU, Xen, UML, VMWare ESX Server, VMWare US 8,589,474 B Workstation suite, VMWare Fusion and VMWare ACE. As an aternative to hardware based virtuaization, software or oper ating system based virtuaization may aso be used. Operating system eve virtuaization, rather than attempt ing to virtuaize a compete set of hardware, may virtuaize at the operating system eve, and so may not require hardware assistance to perform ef?cienty. Rather, operating system based virtuaization may virtuaize an operating system instance, thereby imposing ower or no overhead. As a resut, more virtua environments (V E), containers, virtua private servers (V PS) and/ or virtua dedicated servers (VDS) may be supported on a given Computer 120 or Server 125. In such a software based VE, each OS and/or VE may be instaed and share the same kerne, may require the main node s resources, and may behave in most respects as if it Were a stand-aone computer or server. Operating system-eve virtuaization may aow for the kerne of an operating system to have mutipe isoated user space instances instead of just one, so every user may Work in their own space With the ook and fee of having a rea com puter or server from the point of view of its respective user. This may aow each user to retain a degree of ownership over their own respective standard Work environment, Whie mak ing the most ef?cient use of the Hosting Provider s 105 resources in a controed environment. Each VE may have, as non-imiting exampes, its own superuser (root or Administrator), set of users/ groups, IP address(es), processes,?es, appications, system ibraries con?guration?es or any combination thereof. Non-imiting exampes of software or operating system-based virtuaiza tion may incude but are not imited to OpenVZ, VirtuoZZo, HyperVM, Vserver, Soaris Containers, Soaris Zones, and FreeBSD Jai. The?e system may be structured so that a the informa tion incuding centraized data storage, centra backup and centra emai or any other divisions of the VE may be stored in the home directory of the user on the Computer 120 or Server 125. Because they rey on the services of a singe kerne, a VEs on a given Computer 120 or Server 125 may run the same kerne, but everything ese incuding, but not imited to system ibraries, con?guration and program?es may be different in different VEs. LikeWise, because the VPS or VE may run its own copy of its OS, users may have superuser-eve access to that OS instance, and may insta and remotey access through a net Work amost any software that runs on the OS. Typica sce narios may incude separating severa appications to separate VEs for improved security, hardware independence, and added resource management features. The resut may be a compete graphica WindoWs or X-WindoWs Workstation, With a necessary of?ce and internet toos and utiities. Non-imiting exampes of such software and utiities avai abe may incude OpenOf?ce or Star Of?ce. Either of these may aow the Cient 165 running in a thin or thick cient concept to be abe to remotey access a the necessary of?ce and Internet toos or other standard software or utiities needed Which reside on the computer or server. As an aternative to direct access to the OS,?e systems and other software or utiities on the Computer 120 or Server 125, a hosting Computer 120 or Server 125 may host a Porta Website 140, Which is described in more detai esewhere in this appication and incorporated herein by reference, con sisting of a coection of Web pages,?es, documents, server side appications, contro panes, community Websites, other software or utiities, or any combination thereof. The one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/oraddi tiona Computers 130 may be communicativey couped

17 together and con?gured in such a way as to constitute a Storage Area Network 115 which may provide unimited Additiona Storage Space 115 for appications,?es, docu ments, backups, software etc.a StorageArea Network (SAN) 115 may be de?ned as an architecture to attach remote com puter storage devices, incuding, but not imited to one or more Additiona Computers 130, disk arrays, tape ibraries and/or optica jukeboxes to Computers 120 and/or Servers 125 in such a way that, to the OS, the devices appear as ocay attached. The scope of this invention is not imited to SANs 115 and may aso incude Network Attached Storage, Direct Attached Storage, or any combination thereof. A SAN 115 may connect storage isands such as the one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/oradditiona Com puters 130 together using a high-speed or other Network 100, thus aowing a appications to access a disks. Sharing data between computers through a SAN 115 may require advanced soutions, such as SAN 115?e systems or cus tered computing, and may be used to hep increase storage capacity utiization. Non-imiting exampes of appications of a SAN 115 may incude the use of transactionay accessed data such as emai servers, databases, and high usage?e servers. The de?nition and scope of the SAN 115, for pur poses of this discosure, may further be augmented to incude storage virtuaization and coud storage. Storage virtuaization refers to the process of competey abstracting ogica storage from physica storage. The physi ca storage resources may be aggregated into storage poos, from which the ogica storage may be created. It may present to the user a ogica space for data storage and transparenty hande the process of mapping it to the actua physica oca tion. This may be used to virtuaize mutipe disk arrays, made by different vendors, scattered over the network, into a singe monoithic storage device, which can be managed uni formy. In the case of mutipe Data Centers 110 described above, coud storage may be used. Coud storage refers to a mode of networked data storage where data may be stored on mutipe virtua servers, generay hosted by third parties, rather than being hosted on dedicated servers. Hosting Providers 105 may operate arge Data Centers 110, and peope who require their data to be hosted may buy or ease storage capacity from them, possiby in the form of Additiona Computers 130, and use it for their storage needs. The Data Center 110 operators, in the background, may virtuaize the resources according to the requirements of the customer and expose them as virtua servers, which the customers may then manage. Physicay, the resource may span across mutipe servers. In some ser vices, the system may span mutipe Data Centers 110 or even continents. One non-imiting exampe of such a service is Nirvanix. A Hosting Contro Center (HCC) 145 may be used by the Hosting Provider 105 to access and automaticay insta one or more patches, upgrades, backups, appications, utiities, software or any combination thereof for the Computers 120, Servers 130 and/or Additiona Computers 130. The HCC 145 may be accessibe to a Registrant 150 and/or the Hosting Provider 105 and may be provided for controing different parameters or operating conditions of the Computers 120, Servers 130 and/oradditiona Computers 130. As non-imit ing exampes, in addition to automaticay instaing the most recent version of one or more patches, upgrades, backups, appications, utiities or any combination thereof, the Regis trant 150 and/or the Hosting Provider 105 may be abe to remove or reinsta an appication, change passwords, set basic con?guration settings, migrate appications between different hosting accounts and domains or even restart the US 8,589,474 B Computers 120, Servers 130 and/or Additiona Computers 130 from the HCC 145, as we as providing any other con tro-pane reated utiities now known or ater deveoped in the art. The HCC 145 may further comprise a cient interface used to remotey perform administrative tasks, such as remotey instaing software or remotey restarting the Computers 120, Servers 130 and/ or Additiona Computers 130. The Authen ticated Remote Access 135 may be used in conjunction with the HCC 145 connections to the Computers 120, Servers 130 and/oradditiona Computers 130 to estabish a remote access gateway. In the streamined exampe embodiment iustrated in FIG. 1, A Domain Name 155 may be registered to a Registrant 150 and mapped to a Computer 120 or Server 125 in the Data Center 110 of a Hosting Provider 105. The Registrant 150 may use the Domain Name 155 in conjunction with Cient Software 170 such as a Web Browser 175 and/or a Remote Desktop Program 180 on a Cient 165 communicativey couped to a Network 100 to access the Computer 120 or Server 125. The means for registering the Domain Name 155 may comprise any domain name registration system known in the art or deveoped in the future incuding, but not imited to domain name registration services offered by domain name registries, registrars, and/or reseers (e.g., GODADDY. COM). The process for registering a Domain Name 155 with.com,.net,.org, and some other TLDs aows an Internet user to use an ICANN-accredited registrar to register their Domain Name 155. For exampe, if an Internet user, John Doe, wishes to reg ister the domain name mycompany.com, John Doe may initiay determine whether the desired Domain Name 155 is avaiabe by contacting a domain name registrar. The Internet user may make this contact using the registrar s webpage and typing the desired Domain Name 155 into a?ed on the registrar s webpage created for this purpose. Upon receiving the request from the Internet user, the registrar may ascertain whether mycompany.com has aready been registered by checking the SRS database associated with the TLD of the Domain Name 155. The resuts of the search then may be dispayed on the webpage to thereby notify the Internet user of the avaiabiity of the Domain Name 155. If the Domain Name 155 is avai abe, the Internet user may proceed with the registration pro cess. Otherwise, the Internet user may keep seecting atema tive domain names unti an avaiabe Domain Name 155 is found. The Registrant 150 may be an individua or an entity incuding, but not imited to, a person, a business, a govern menta institution, an educationa institution, a non-pro?t organization, or a socia organization or any other individua or organization capabe of registering domain names. As previousy discosed, the Hosting Provider 105, in addi tion to providing hosting services may aso be a registrar or reseer of domain names and may have the means to both register a Domain Name 155 to the Registrant 150 as we as map the Domain Name 155 to the Computer 120 and/or Server 125 hosted in the Data Center For purposes of this discosure, the mapped Domain Name 155 may aso incude any Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Internet Protoco (IP) address reated to the Domain Name 155. This mapping may be a cient or server-based software too that may perform the mapping function automaticay based on a Domain Name 155, a sub-domain or IP address and/or URL information registered to the Registrant 150 to point the

18 11 Domain Name 155 to the Computer 120 and/or Server 125 hosted in the Data Center 110 of the Hosting Provider 105. The mapping may use any method and/or technoogy known in the art or deveoped in the future for mapping a Domain Name 155 to a hosted Computer 120 and/or Server 125 incuding, but not imited to URL forwarding, redirect ing, masking and/ or any combination thereof. Reated URL forwarding, redirecting or masking may incude, as is known in the art, manua redirection, using HTTP 3xx status codes, server-side redirection scripting,.htaccess?es, meta refresh redirection, JavaScript redirects, frame redirects, and/ or redi rect oops. Aiases aso may be impemented to have the Computer 120 and/or Server 125 mapped to different domain names. As with the one or more Computers 120, Servers 125 and/ or Additiona Computers 130, the Cient 165 may be any computer or program that provides services to other comput ers, programs, or users either in the same computer or over a computer Network 100. As non-imiting exampes, the Cient 165 may be an appication, communication, mai, database, proxy, fax,?e, media, web, peer-to-peer, or standaone com puter which may contain an operating system, a fu?e system, a puraity of other necessary utiities or appications or any combination thereof on the Cient 165. A Cient 165 may be de?ned as any appication or system incuding a computer, aptop, teephone, handhed device, etc. that accesses a service (possiby a remote service) on another computer system (generay, but not imited to a server or some type of ho sting computer) by way of a network and/or devices that may or may not be capabe of running their own stand-aone programs, but may interact with remote computers or systems via a network. The cient may be a thick (aso known as fat or rich) cient, a thin cient or a hybrid cient, which is a mixture of a thick and thin cient, in that it processes ocay, but reies on a server for storage data. A thick Cient 165 may be de?ned as a cient that performs the buk of any data processing operations itsef, and does not necessariy rey on the server. The thick Cient 165 may incude dispay, remote desktop and wi? capabiity or any combination thereof. Non-imiting exampes of thick Cients 165 which may be used in the context of the current invention may incude a mini-aptop, a wireess aptop, a simpe, inex pensive PC desktop, a thick cient integrated into a mobie phone and a hybrid dumb cient. A thin Cient 165 may be de?ned as a minima cient that uses the resources of a host computer to graphicay dispay software or utiities provided by the host computer or appi cation server, the computer or server performing the buk of any required data processing. The thin Cient 165 may incude dispay, remote desktop and wi? capabiity or any combination thereof. Non-imiting exampes of thin Cients 165 which may be used in the context of the current invention may incude a set top box, a thin cient connected to a TV for TV dispay, a thin cient integrated into a mobie phone and a dumb cient. Non imiting programming environments for Cients 165 may incude JavaScript/AJAX (cient side automation), ASP, J SP, Ruby on Rais, Python s Django, PHP, HTML pages or rich media ike Fash, Fex or Siveright. Such programming environments may be used to present the Registrant 150 with options reating to server-side appications in the context of the Porta Website 125. Cient Software 170 may be used for authenticated remote access to the instaed OS,?e system, software and/or utii ties 135 on the Computer 120 or Server 125, and/ or for authenticated remote access to the Porta Website 140 on the hosting Computer 120 or Server 125. These may be, but are US 8,589,474 B not imited to being, accessed by a Remote Desktop Program 180 and/ or a Web Browser 175 respectivey. The Remote Desktop Program 180 may be a con?guration interface which aows the appication to run on the Computer 120 and/ or Server 125 whie the user interface is rendered on the any compatibe remote Cient 165 on the appropriate Cient Software 170. The Remote Desktop Program 180 may further aow the upoading and downoading of?es between the Computer 120 and/or Server 125 and the remote Cient 165. This con?guration interface may aso act as a Remote Desktop Protoco (RDP) gateway, aowing remote contro of the Computer 120 and/ or Server 125 over the Internet, or any other soution based on TCP/IP networks or any other Net work 100 simiary compatibe with the con?guration dis cosed herein. The Authenticated Remote Access 135 to the Computer 120 and/or Server 125 may be accompished as the Domain Name 155 is entered into Cient Software 170, a Remote Desktop Program 180, a Web Browser 175 or any combina tion thereof on the Cient 165. The Remote Desktop Program 180 may be integrated into or used in conjunction with the Web Browser 175 or other Cient Software 170. As the Domain Name 155 may have been mapped to the Computer 120 or Server 125 hosted in the Data Center 110 of the Hosting Provider 105, the Domain Name 155 may resove to the Computer 120 where access is provided to the Registrant 150. Once access is provided to the Registrant 150 on the Cient 165 through resoution of the entered Domain Name 155 mapped to the Computer 120, the Registrant 150 may be further provided Authenticated Remote Access 135 to an operating system, a fu?e system, a puraity of other nec essary utiities, appications or software, a Porta Website 140 or any combination thereof on the Computer 120 or Server 125. In addition to the roes previousy described, the Hosting Provider 1 05 may aso act as a retaier for the thick and/ or thin Cient 165 described above. The Hosting Provider 105 may design, assembe, se and/or provide the thick and/or thin Cient 165 to Registrants 150 as part of, or independent from, the sae and registration of a Domain Name 155 to the Reg istrant 150. As an aternative, the Hosting Provider 105 may aso pro vide the thick and/ or thin Cient 165 described above through one or more third party Cient Retaiers 185 who may design, assembe, se and/or provide the thick and/or thin Cient 165 to Registrants 150 as part of, or independent from, the sae and registration of a Domain Name 155 to the Registrant 150. The Hosting Provider 105 may aso partner with the one or more Cient Retaiers 185 and/or any ISP which may provide the broadband or other Internet Service and/or Instaation Infrastructure 160 or any combination thereof to brand the thick and/or thin Cients 165 to re?ect the partnership, and may co-market the thick and/or thin cients with the Cient Retaiers 185 and the ISP responsibe for the Internet Service and/or Instaation Infrastructure 160. As shown in the streamined exampe embodiment ius trated in FIG. 1, the standard software incuded in the Regis trant s 150 virtua environment is not imited to that software incuded within the container, OS, VPS or virtua environ ment. The Registrant 150 may be provided with access to software or utiities which may be purchased and instaed on the computer via an onine Community of software vendors in a centra ocation, or through coud computing. The Registrant 150 may have access to additiona software or utiities through coud computing which may be purchased and/or instaed on the Computer 120 or Server 125. Such

19 13 access may be in addition to using coud computing for Authenticated Remote Access 135 to any instaed OS,?e system, software and/or utiities on the Computer 120 or Server 125 and/ or for Authenticated Remote Access 135 to a Porta Website 140 on a hosting Computer 120 or Server 125. Coud computing may aso be used for any other software access or utiity needed for the Computer 120, Server 125, Additiona Computers 130 and/or Cient 165. Because of the Hosting Provider s 105 potentia infrastruc ture of a Network 100, a puraity of Cients 165, Computers 120, Additiona Computers 130 and/or Servers 125 and an Internet Service and/or Instaation Infrastructure 160, coud computing may be utiized as an aternative to having oca servers or persona devices handing users appications. In genera, and for purposes of this speci?cation, coud comput ing may indicate that function comes from the coud. The coud is often understood to mean a pubic network, possiby based on TCP/IP networks, speci?cay often assumed to be the Internet. Thus, function within the environment does not come from a speci?c identi?abe device. The architecture behind coud computing may incude a massive network of coud servers interconnected as if in a grid running in parae, sometimes using the techniques of virtuaization described esewhere in this discosure and incorporated herein by reference, to maximize computing power per Computer 120 and/or Server 125. In genera, and for purposes of this speci?cation, coud computing may rep resent a subset of grid computing that may incude utiity computing and other approaches to the use of shared comput ing resources. As a resut, the services that may be deivered from the coud are not imited to web appications, but may aso incude storage, raw computing, or access to any number of speciaized services as seen in the Storage Area Network 115, Porta Website 140, and software and utiities avaiabe on the Community of Onine Vendors 190. This Community of Onine Vendors 190 may exist as part of the Porta Website 140 or independenty as part of the computing coud. The onine Community is further described in more detai in sub sequent eements, steps and embodiments. The appication of coud computing in this discosure is not imited ony to the accessing and downoading of utiities and appications, but may be appied to any eement or step of the current invention which is capabe of supporting coud com puting as now known or deveoped in the future. Non-imiting exampes of coud computing may incude AmaZon Eastic Compute Coud, Nirvanix, 3tera, AppLogic, Joyent, Googe App Engine, Live Mesh, Project Caroine, Skytap, HatsiZe, etc. A Method for Hosting a Remote Computer in a Hosting Data Center Severa different methods may be used to host a remote computer in a ho sting data center. In an exampe embodiment iustrated in FIG. 2, a Domain Name 155 may be registered to a Registrant 150 (Step 200), and the Domain Name 155 may then be mapped to a Computer 120 or Server 125 in a Data Center 110 of a Hosting Provider 105 (Step 210). The Hosting Provider 105 may insta on the Computer 120, Server 125 and/or Additiona Computers 130, via a HCC 145 and as necessary, the most recent version of one or more patches, upgrades, backups, appications, software, utiities or any combination thereof (Step 220), wherein the Hosting Provider 105 has access and the abiity to og in to the Com puter 120 or Server 125 to insta the one or more patches, upgrades, backups, appications, software, utiities or any combination thereof. US 8,589,474 B The Registrant 150 may then be provided with Authenti cated Remote Access 135, via a Remote Desktop Program 180 or other Cient Software 170 such as a Web Browser 175 on a Cient 165, to the Computer 120 or Server 125, wherein the access resoves from the Domain Name 155 and provides the Registrant 150 Authenticated Remote Access 135 to an instaed OS, a fu?e system, a puraity of other necessary utiities or appications or any combination thereof on the Computer 120 or Server 125 (Step 230). In addition, the Registrant 150 may be provided Authenti cated Remote Access 135 to software or utiities which may be purchased and/ or instaed, from Onine Vendors 190 onto the Computer 120 or Server 125 via coud computing or through an onine Community (Step 240). The Computer 120 or Server 125 may be communicativey couped to at east one Additiona Computer 130 in a Storage Area Network 115 (Step 250), thereby providing unimited Additiona Storage Space 115 assignabe to the Registrant 150 for?es, backups, appication insta packages, o?ine storage space, other soft ware or any combination thereof. A Method for Hosting a Porta Website in a Hosting Data Center In another exampe embodiment iustrated in FIG. 3, a Domain Name 155 may be registered to a Registrant 150 (Step 300), and the Domain Name 155 may then be mapped to a Porta 140, hosted on a hosting Computer 120 and/or Server 125 in a Data Center 110 of a Hosting Provider 105 (Step 310) The Hosting Provider 105 may insta on the hosting Computer 120, Server 125 and/or Additiona Com puters 130, via a Hosting Contro Center 145 and as neces sary, the most recent version of one or more patches, upgrades, backups, appications, software, utiities or any combination thereof (Step 320), wherein the Hosting Pro vider 105 has access and the abiity to og in to the hosting Computer 120, Server 125 and/ or Additiona Computers 130 to insta the one or more patches, upgrades, backups, appi cations, software, utiities or any combination thereof. The Registrant 150 may then be provided with Authenti cated Remote Access 135, via a Web Browser 175 and/or other Cient Software 170 on a Cient 165, to the Porta Website 140, wherein the access resoves from the Domain Name 155 and provides the Registrant 150 access to the Porta Website 140 (Step 330). The Registrant 150 may then be provided with access to onine software or utiities which may be purchased and/or added to the Porta Website 140 via coud computing or through an onine Community (Step 340). In addition, the hosting Computer 120 and/or Server 125 may then be communicativey couped to at east one Additiona Computer 130 in a Storage Area Network 115, thereby providing unimited Additiona Storage Space 115 assignabe to the Registrant 150 for?es, backups, appica tion insta packages, o?ine storage space, other software or any combination thereof (Step 350). A Porta Website System As shown in a streamined exampe embodiment of the remote computer and/or server system shown in FIG. 1, a Porta Website 140 may be hosted on at east one hosting Computer 120 and/or Server 125 communicativey couped to a Network 100 and owned by a Hosting Provider 105. The Porta Website 140 may resove from a Domain Name 155 registered to a Registrant 150. The Registrant 150 may use a Cient 165 communicativey couped to a Network 100 for connecting to, accessing and dispaying the Porta Website 140. The Porta Website 140 may comprise a website that pro vides a singe or mutipe functions via a webpage or website. These functions may further comprise a point of access to

20 15 information on the Word Wide Web from diverse sources in a uni?ed way. The porta may provide a way for the Hosting Provider 105 to provide a consistent ook and fee with access and procedures for mutipe appications, which otherwise may have been different entities atogether, possiby by resoving the mapped Domain Name 155 to the Porta Web site 140. The Porta Website 140 may be a site that provides personaized capabiities to its visitors, providing a pathway to other content, described in more detai beow. The Porta Website 140 may additionay have administrative toos or other software a in a singe pace to administer a necessary appications and utiities to the Registrant 150. As shown in a more detaied exampe embodiment of the Porta Website shown in FIG. 4, a Cient 165 may be com municativey couped to a Network 100 for connecting to, accessing and dispaying the Porta Website 140. The Cient 165 may use Cient Software 170, which may incude a Web Browser 175 and/or a Remote Desktop Program 180 to con nect to, access through Authenticated Remote Access 135, and dispay the Porta Website 140. The Registrant 150 may access the Porta Website 140 by being authenticated using means discosed esewhere in this appication and incorporated herein by reference. The Domain Name 155 beonging to the Registrant 150 may resove after being mapped, to the Porta Website 140. In other words, by entering the Domain Name 155 into a Web Browser 175 or other compatibe Cient Software 170 on a Cient 165, the previousy mapped Domain Name 155 may resove to the Registrant s 150 Porta Website 140. The Porta Website 140 may further comprise a puraity of Porta Web Pages 400 accessibe via a puraity of Links 410, DirectAccess Domains 420 or other means of seecting Porta Web Pages 400 discosed in detai esewhere in this appica tion. The Porta Web Pages 400 may further comprise at east one onine Community and/or other onine software or utii ties 430, at east one Website Storage Area and/or other stor age areas 440, at east one Management Webpage and/or other contro panes 460 accessibe to the Registrant 150 after successfu authentication, at east one Emai Webpage 450, any of the aforementioned or any combination thereof. The onine Community 43 0 may further comprise access to one or more Onine Vendors 190 who may or may not be members of the onine Community 430 and may provide the onine software or utiities added to the Porta Website 140. The onine Community 430 may further comprise a Hosting Provider 105, a puraity of additiona partners or customers accessing the onine Community 430, the Onine Vendors 190 or any combination thereof. The Onine Vendors 190 or addi tiona partners may provide a puraity of hep instructions for products provided, and means for the Onine Vendors 190 or other partners to faciitate instaations, patches, upgrades or backups of software or utiities and reated?es used in con junction with the Porta Website 140. The puraity of onine Community 430 customers may desire to submit feedback regarding the products provided on the onine Community 430. To faciitate this, the onine Com munity 430 may further provide means to submit feedback to the Onine Vendors 190 or other partners and/or means to contact technica support provided by the Onine Vendors 190 or other partners regarding the software, utiities or other products. The Onine Vendors 190 or other partners may further desire means for customers to pay for the software, utiities or other products provided on the onine Community 430. Such means to pay for such products may be provided as part of the onine Community 430 accessibe through the Porta Website 140. US 8,589,474 B The onine Community 430 as previousy discosed may aso be used to access onine server-side software or utiities 430. Coud computing as discosed esewhere in this appica tion and incorporated herein by reference may aso be used by the Registrant to access the onine server-side or other soft ware or utiities 430 which may be purchased and/or added, to the Porta Website 140. Onine server-side software or utiities 430 may be acces sibe via Links 410, Direct Access Domains 420 or other means of seecting and accessing onine server-side software or utiities 430. The onine server-side software or utiities 430 which exist on the Porta Website 430 or which may be purchased and/ or added to the Porta Website 140 may further comprise server-side appications. Server-side appications may be de?ned as appications which are executed on a host ing Computer 120 or Server 125 and dispayed on the Cient 165. Non-imiting exampes of software which utiizes a server-side environment incudes ASP, PHP, CG/Per, and may dynamicay dispay information from MSSQL or MySQL databases as are known in the art. The Website Storage Area 440 may be any means of stor age for storing?es or other information reated to the Porta Website 140. As shown in the streamined exampe embodi ment shown in FIG. 1 and the more detaied exampe embodi ment shown in FIG. 5, the Website Storage Area 440 may be used for storing?es, documents, backups, appication or other insta packages, software or any other needed means of onine or o?ine storage space, or any combination thereof reating to remote access to the Operating System,?e sys tem, software or utiities and/or the Porta Website 140, incuding, but not imited to the onine Community and/or onine server-side software or utiities 430 or any utiized coud-computing appications on the Porta Website 140 or downoaded and incuded in the Porta Website 140. As shown in the streamined exampe embodiment shown in FIG. 1 and the more detaied exampe embodiment shown in FIG. 5, The Website Storage Area 440 may be hosted on at east one hosting Computer 120 or Server 125 which may be communicativey couped to a Network 100 and owned by a Hosting Provider 105. The Website Storage Area 440 may further be contained within the Porta Website 140 which may resove from the Domain Name 155 and may aso be hosted by the Hosting Provider 105. A Registrant 150 may use the Domain Name 155 in conjunction with a Cient 165 to con nect to, access and dispay the Website Storage Area 440 and any reated?es, documents, backups, appication insta packages, o?ine storage space, software, etc Access may be provided after Authenticated Remote Access 135 is provided to the Registrant 150. The Website Storage Area 440 may further be part of a Storage Area Network 115 wherein the hosting Computer 120 and/ or Server 125 may be communicativey couped with at east one Additiona Computer 130 to provide unimited Additiona Storage Space 115 as needed by the Registrant 150 to the Website Storage Area or any other storage areas 440. The Website Storage Area 440 may further comprise a Fie Storage Management Webpage 470 which works on prin cipes simiar to the Porta Management Webpage 460, described in greater detai beow. The Fie Storage Management Webpage 470 may further comprise the abiity to store and access the?es or documents within the Website Storage Area 440, transmit and receive?es between the Cient 165 and the Computer 120 and/or Server 125, may be dispayed in a Web Browser with the abiity to access, organize and downoad?es to the Cient 165 as needed and may be dispayed in a Web Browser with