You have probably visited a few website hosting service providers which offer something like 99.5%, 99.8% or 99.9% uptime guarantee. In this article I will give you some tips how to avoid situation when you sign up for a web host offering such guarantee but the real uptime is significantly lower.
1. Never care about promises without proof. If you find a website hosting service offering attractive guarantee check out their website for the stats.
2. If you find the uptime statistics take into account if they are provided by the web host itself or independently by third party service. You should look for links to these monitoring services and check out the uptime history. Data from last 6 months are most important -- they will tell you how is the host doing now.
3. Beware of fake uptime stats. Some monitoring services allow to the website hosting companies reseting the downtimes to zero because web hosts display icon with uptime stats on their websites with link to the uptime monitoring service. So the monitoring service is motivated to show good uptime because they will have better chance to gain targeted backlinks. If the hosting company resets the downtimes the stats will show 100% uptime even though they was down a few hours every day. Look to the section for web hosting companies to find out if this is possible. Also check the downtime history. If the company is monitored for many months and never was down it is suspicious. If you find some downtime let's say one year ago you can be sure that the stats for the last year are accurate.
4. It is possible you will not be able to find any statistics on the web hosting companies website. In this case you should try to google for something like "company name uptime" or "company URL uptime monitoring".
5. Established companies are usually reviewed by current and past customers. Search for reviews in webmaster related forums or create new thread and ask others to share their experince.
6. 100% uptime is not possible to achieve forever. Every server needs restart time from time. Avoid providers promising 100% uptime.
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