
What is Uptime?
“Uptime guarantee is a warrant that your website will be up and accessible online for a certain percentage of time. May web hosts guarantee 99%, 99.99%, or even 100% uptime”
Most web hosting provide some uptime guarantees as part of their overall marking approach to help promote their uptime performance and draw concentration to their reliability. When reviewing a host uptime guarantee be sure to pay attention to the guaranteed uptime percentage 99.9% should be the minimum the refund amounts associated with excess downtime, and the incident that are excluded from counting towards downtime.
What’s The Right Value of Downtime?
“Downtime is a duration in which your system or computer are unavailable”
OR
“Downtime refers to a period of time that a system fails to perform any task or function”
In many cases: it’s not actually the fault of the web hosting provider site that your website is slow. While we are not going to cover all of the things that might be making your website slow here, we are going to highlight a couple of reasons that you might be facing problem, for instance:
- Your images haven’t been properly re-sized & optimized for the web
- The number of queries that the website makes when loading pages is too high
- Number of external resources on the website is too high
- An internet issues
- Human error
- Power outage
When you are monitor the Downtime of your website follow the following things:
- Monitor all of your web pages of your websites
- Monitor the speed at which page can load
- Monitor the uptime and response time of your website
- Monitor your network for content delivery in greater depth
An acceptable value of downtime for your web hosting service depend largely on whether or not your website actually makes you money. If you rely on your website for a revenue, then it could be possible to argue that any downtime what so ever is too much. However, that might not be a realistic desire.
However, that doesn’t mean that you should be struggling with downtime all of the time or for long time. Unfortunately, it’s worth nothing that a more expensive provider or service isn’t always more reliable. For a totally dedicated server, you’d need a Load-Balanced server, and even then, issues can sometimes lead to wonderful downtime.
Uptime Guarantees are Ultimately Trustworthy
If you navigate all the exclusion and have sufficient downtime, you will find that level of compensation is extremely poor. They say that
“Time is Money”
With the level of compensation that’s offered by some web hosting providers to people who struggle with their uptime is often not worth seeking in the first place. Additionally, you’ll need to consider your action should your web hosting provider continue to offer you on-going problem in your service and uptime. The truth is that, unfortunately, though they might appear on the surface, these guarantees for uptime are ultimately worthless.
The best way that you can make sure you’re avoiding as much downtime as possible is to choose your web hosting provider with care attention. Look for someone who has a proven track record regarding reliability, and the infrastructure in place to make sure that if things do go wrong, they can be deal with in a manner that’s fast and efficient.