What is the up-time for your web host?

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December 2, 2012, 9:27 pm

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What is the up-time for your web host?

Is your web host up most of the time? Or, do you experience down-time for your site often?

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Gjeloise

Gjeloise

My web host claims their up-time is over 99%, but we have some downtime every day on the forum. Maybe every forum host has downtime for repairs. Though I wish they took care of these repairs at a time when my forum traffic wouldn't suffer.

12 years ago

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monitorscout

monitorscout

Don't be fool. There is a huge difference between 99% uprime and 99.9% uptime.

In case of 99.9% uptime your website will remain down for 9 hours in a year.

and for 99% uptime your web host will remain down for 3.65 days in a year.

So now you can calculate the amount of loss you are going to make from this.

That's why all website owner should subscribe to a good website monitoring services to make sure that they would get the maximum up time for their business.

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Beverly

Beverly

Forum downtime is inevitable if you have a bad host. I'm considering finding another host for my own forum but not sure how to migrate my databases.

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monitorscout

monitorscout

Yes, downtime is inevitable but you can compare before to migrate. Check who provides the best up-time.

Don't be impressed, if a hosting company says that they provide 99% uptime.

Since

Up Time

Down Time / Year

90% = 876 hours

95% = 438 hours

99% = 87 hours, 36 minutes

99.9% = 8 hours, 45 minutes, 36 seconds

99.99% = 52 minutes, 33.6 seconds

99.999% = 5 minutes, 15.36 seconds

99.9999% = 31.68 seconds

So you can figure out yourself if anyone try to impress you by saying that they provide 99% uptime, sine you know the difference now.

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monitorscout

monitorscout

Downtime is inevitable in web world.

How can you be so sure that you don't have downtime for 4 months at a stretch? Do you monitor it 24/7?

Even the web host offers 99.999% uptime will face a downtime of 5 minutes, 15.36 seconds in a year.

So you didn't face downtime in last 4 months doesn't mean that you won't face downtime throughout the year.

And if you have high traffic website then 5 minutes is enough to bring huge damage to your business.

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Tommy Matalino

Tommy Matalino

I haven't experienced any downtime on my sites.

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vinaya

vinaya

I have never seen my websites down and I have also never received any complaints from my visitors that my sites were down. Therefore I believe my host provides 99.99 percent uptime. I am with namecheap.

7 years ago

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