Absolutely 100% agree. Especially in this industry where trusting a data centre with your servers can be the same as trusting them with your entire business. If they claim UI accreditation and don't have it, what else are they claiming which they don't have?
uptime of the host
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Absolutely 100% agree. Especially in this industry where trusting a data centre with your servers can be the same as trusting them with your entire business. If they claim UI accreditation and don't have it, what else are they claiming which they don't have?
easyhostmedia
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What a laugh, just fell of my seat.I have 3 servers all cluster configured together and guess what it cost me to do A BIG FAT ZERO.
As I already have the servers it costs nothing to set up the clustering of these servers.
but even without these you can get a 128mb server for a few $$ and install cPanel DNS only ( free) and cluster with your other servers, which is a five minute process.
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I have 3 servers all cluster configured together and guess what it cost me to do A BIG FAT ZERO.
As I already have the servers it costs nothing to set up the clustering of these servers.
but even without these you can get a 128mb server for a few $$ and install cPanel DNS only ( free) and cluster with your other servers, which is a five minute process.
lol, be careful while reading the post in the future else you required the cluster setup for your own uptime as its not good to felt down while reading the posts.....
easyhostmedia
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HAHA! are your being funny. yes i read the thread
anyone on shared hosting cannot configure cluster as you need root access to the server.
so what i stated in my previous post is 100% correct. we have all our servers clustered together, even the server that hosts our shared hosting clients and as we are only paying $4 a month for the main cluster server we dont pass this cost to clients. to us its piece of mind and extra protection if we have server issues.
:agree: nice to see some one providing the cluster server for the shared hosting client and its great, you are receiving the cluster in cheap rates....:thumbup:
easyhostmedia
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as stated a 128MB VPS with cpanel DNS only installed is all you need to set up a cluster, but not every host knows how to use the configure cluster feature in WHM.
we did plenty of research into this before we carried it out as our main server provider could not provide such a low spec server.
For bad hosts the uptime is low , for the better hosters it is higher. This has always been so, but sometimes the best hosting providers' average uptime is low than 90%.
For example, at greengeeks.com, 79 of 201 domains have an uptime below 90%. To exclude the possibility of an error, we began to observe other 200 sites at this hosting. This time, we found that only 46 of 206 domains have an uptime below 90%. Based on the example of greengeeks.com, we revealed the following website stability correlation:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wm2vzn4h8v0qi7b/Average%20uptime.JPG
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hkqqbq3btqffgio/average%20uptime2.JPG
Interesting. How did you probe and measure? ping, get http, etc?
I completely agree that there is no hosting provider in the world providing 100% uptime or at least 99.9% uptime.
In order to provide you with accurate information, we conducted a special study. Our goal was to find out the real situation with hosting stability at our Top-10 companies. To do this, we randomly selected 200 functioning websites at each hosting, and observed them, measuring their uptime using a special service.
The term of study, sufficient enough to obtain reliable data, was defined 6 weeks. As a result, the most stable hostings are BlueHost and WebHostingHub. Interesting fact: among ten host companies, only two - HostGator and WebHostingPad - not only guarantee to provide 99,9% uptime, but also a free month of hosting as a compensation in case of not meeting the requirements.
Find out how we studied the uptime in our article Hosting Uptime Analysis.
Uptime indicates the hosting's stability. It shows the percentage of time from the total observation period, during which the website was available to visitors. Website availability depends on the server's uptime and bandwidth of internet channels, through which the data centre is connected to the global network.
The stable functioning of one's website is important, especially for commercial projects. If a popular web-portal, online store or web-service have 50-100 new visitors every minute, then any downtime period or slow page loading will result in a huge number of lost customers. This problem is discussed in the following articles:
Got Enough Capacity?, Website Uptime, Your Reputation, and Your Bottomline, Black Friday: Proof That Ecommerce Uptime Truly Affects The Bottom Line.
Our team observed uptime rates of sites, hosted at our TOP-10 hosting companies. Shared hosting has several websites of different customers on the same server. Therefore, for the accuracy of statistics, we selected 200 domains, hosted at each of the ten hosts in our ranking.
We used
o to choose these domains and
to gather uptime rates.
Initially, during the period from 12/12/2011 to 08/01/2012, we gathered statistics on 20 sites, 2 domains from each of the 10 hosts. To increase statistics, the number of sites was increased to 20 for each hosting with a total of 200 domains. In the period from 05/03/2012 to 15/04/2012, we started to collect statistics on 200 sites from each host. In the end, the values differed greatly​​ - for example, at fatcow.com the average uptime (US) for the observation period from 05/03/2012 to 11/03/2012 was:
- data from 20 sites - 93,23%
- data from 200 sites - 98.34%
After increasing the number of domains for observation, the average uptime rate for each hosting changed -- in some cases it increased by 0.31% - 2.9%, in other, decreased by 1.26% - 11.92%. A large spread in values is ​​associated with the specific of a shared-hosting. If a large number of observed sites are located on the same web server that operates poorly, the overall statistics for the hosting will be worse. For the analysis and conclusions, we used statistics collected from 200 sites at each hosting.
For example, at greengeeks.com, 79 of 201 domains have an uptime below 90%. To exclude the possibility of an error, we began to observe other 200 sites at this hosting. This time, we found that only 46 of 206 domains have an uptime below 90%.
So the uptime conclusions can be seen on the picture below:
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According to our observations, the most stable hostings are the following:
inmotionhosting.com
webhostinghub.com
hostgator.com
The most unreliable is greengeeks.com.
Please note that some of the hosts not only promise to maintain the stable operation of your sites, but also clearly indicate in their ToS their obligation to maintain an uptime no lower than 99.9%.
Hostings mentioning their obligation to maintain high uptime.
HostGator - In its rules (paragraph 9b) agrees to add a free month of hosting, if the uptime is less than 99.9%.
Webhostingpad - In its rules guarantees an uptime of 99.9%, and agrees to add a free month of hosting for every 8 hours of violation.
We offer you to observe the work of your site using one of the following monitoring services:
The advantage of such services is that round the clock, with a short interval (from one to 60 minutes), they will automatically check the availability and download speed of your website from multiple servers located in different parts of the world. In case you have problems, you will be notified by mail or SMS.
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easyhostmedia
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this is wrong as 100% uptime can be achieved,
over 24 hours
over 1 week
over 1 month
you can acheive 100% uptime, it is longer periods where it becomes harder to acheive this
I wasn't able to find any uptime guarantee from webhosting pad. HG will credit you 1 month hosting for less than 99.9% uptime (over 45 minutes/month downtime). "Third party monitoring service reports may not be used for justification...The uptime of the server is defined as the reported uptime from the operating system and the Apache Web Server which may differ from the uptime reported by other individual services."
"Uptime" for the OS and web server service is much different than "time my website is up," the latter always being much lower.
IT can be so that the server of one user is up and running fine without any downtimes for one week, the server of the other user experiences server downtimes and reboots two times a week for example.
This also depends on your luck and the server your account is located on.But when we investigate the company uptime, we take into consideration different company server to find out the real general company uptime.
easyhostmedia
Well-known member
we currently have 1 server thats been up 100% for 144 days and another server 92 days.
you cant always rely on services like pingdom as our pingdom account seesm to always say our server is down an average 10 minutes each month, which when we provide them with serve3r logs disputing this all they say is that the server may be up 100% but one of their monitoring stations may not be able to connect to server so will report downtime and then they refuse to correct the server report, therfore giving anyone looking at the report false information.
easyhostmedia
Well-known member
this is something we agree on
Amit_Tutishost
New member
Most of the hosting providers have 99.99% of the uptime.So its Like 45 mins downtime for any server in a month...... So those are considered to be good hosting provider companies.... It may even happen that since many months you would not have any downtime...... It actually depends upon Datacenters to datacenter as well
WebNet Host
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These days, due to the cloud server technology, really high up times can be achieved. Some hosting companies are even talking about 100%.
andrewlarioza
New member
I would agree to meet at least 99.99% uptime.
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