Web Host - Uptime
Uptime refers to how often a site is available or responsive to web requests.
The internet never sleeps, which means your web site needs
to be up every second of every hour of every... you get the idea. A visitor
could be arriving at your site's home page at any time of the day, so a web host
with a high uptime percentage is critical.
Advertised Uptime
Nearly all web hosts will advertise and guarantee a "99.9%" or higher uptime percentage.
However, these guarantees are about as trustworthy as a used car salesman, not very! If
a host has a history of a great uptime performance they will post a history
of their uptime performance, monitored by a 3rd party, such as
Alertra or InternetSeer.
Additionally, web hosts that operates on a redundant network (more than one data line to the internet)
will be more reliable than a web host that is running
only a single data line.
Monitor Server Uptime
If you have already signed up for a web host you can use a
3rd party to constantly monitor your site's uptime and be instantly notified by email
if your web site ever becomes unresponsive.
InternetSeer
provides a free monitoring system that will check your web site every 60 minutes. If your
web site needs to be monitored more closely, both
Alertra or InternetSeer have
pay for monitoring plans that are very thorough.
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