Australian VPS Hosting

More and more businesses are migrating to the internet in hopes of attracting additional clients, you may be looking to do so yourself, and when these businesses go looking for internet exposure, they must first find a hosting company.

But the hosting companies all are in the business of finding new clients too and one way they attract new business is through their uptime guarantee or SLA. The uptime guarantee is a way of advertising how often your hosting servers are off line, put another way, it is how often the content on the web hosting servers is inaccessible to the public, your clients.

The term uptime guarantee is a little ambiguous. The term really means “how much downtime is acceptable”. The figures presented also tell a story, one large web hosting provider advertises their uptime at 99.9%, what they are really telling you is that out of a normal month, their service maybe off line for as much as 43.2 minutes. Advertisers who advertise a 99.5% uptime permit their service to be off line for as much as 216 minutes per month. The advertisers who advertise a 99.99% up time however, are advertising their service may only be inaccessible for 4.32 minutes per month.

Now you must be thinking

“Surely the better the figure the more reliable the provider, and correspondingly the more money you have to pay”

And to an extent you are right, but this isn’t the whole picture.

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