If you’ve ever been looking for a web hosting (opens in new tab) provider you’ve probably been bombarded with ads promising a 99.9% or 99.99% web hosting uptime guarantee or perhaps even a bold 100% one, yes?
Well, if you’re not sure what to make of them, you’re at the right place. We’re going to dive deep into the subject of uptime guarantees – what they are, what they really mean, and why you should bother finding this out.
However, before we go any further, let’s clear up what is uptime as well as its flip side – downtime. Uptime is measured as a percentage of time a service (web hosting in our case) is available. So, for instance, if a web hosting service is available 99.9% of the time, your website will be up and running for that amount of time.
On the other side,…