Site Uptime
One of the most important requirements of a hosting service is reliability. As a website owner you should make sure that your website will be available all the time so that your site visitors can do business with you at any time. Check what is being offered by the hosting provider and ensure that they have a guaranteed up time. It refers to the percentage of time that the host is accessible to users over the Internet.
If a web hosting company claims that its service will be available 99.9%, that means that over a calendar year, the downtime is approximately 8 hours and 46 minutes. It is important to keep in mind that planned interruptions for any number of reasons as well as server restarts are sometimes a reality of web hosting.
If your current hosting service does not publish your sites uptime you can find out about it yourself by using a free tool from SiteUptime. This monitoring program can tell you if your website is down.
Here is the example of the result.
Please note that there is no web hosting that can provide 100% uptime guarantee. The picture above is the result for this website which is hosted by Hostony.
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