The term uptime means that the amount of time that server of web hosting company is running without any interruption. It is impossible to get 100% uptime for any web host company no matter how much there infrastrure is good. When you visit for cheap web hosting providers, most of them promise to 99.9% of uptime. But there is a question that how we would verify that they would fulfill there promise and what guarantees they are offering, so there is need to calculate the down time.
Down time is the time when your website is not accessed from host server
There is two types of downtime, planned and unplanned. In case of planned downtime, the company has to restart their hosting servers on some scheduled date and time and this is something that is unavoidable but this is debatable that the quality and specifications of the servers play a major role in predicting how often they will need maintenance, the planned downtime is not included in the uptime guarantee promised by a company. Read the rest of this entry »