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How important is UPTIME to you?

by gzeus
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How important is to you that your site is available to your visitors at all times, without going down at all (or very, very rarely)?

Any of you pay for a service from a third party (not your webhost) that ensures you 100% uptime (or at least, very close to 100%)?

How much do you pay, (or would you pay) per month for something like that?

Thanks.
#important #uptime #website availability
  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I wouldn't pay anything for it. I use Hostgator and have never had a problem with down time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Manny Derek
    I do not pay. I just rely on every day trafffic. All i did is promote it by blog commenting and joining forum as of now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph G Spiteri
    I have two sites on amazon cloud server and they never go down takes a bit of reading up to get then setup.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      No, I wouldn't pay extra for it.

      I pay for hosting (at HostGator, TypePad, Weebly and Heart Internet) and I expect - and get - very close to 100% up-time from all of them: it's part of what they're selling.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trapped
    Aside that there is no 100% guarantee, the todays cloud technology is getting as close as 99.999999%

    However as above members mentioned, no I would not pay extra for something that should be expected from a datacenter provider, if a datacenter fails to deliver a reasonable uptime of their servers i'd simply switch to a better one rather then spend extra money on a company that is unable to provide me with quality service.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Wilson
    Hi!

    Hostgator has a great uptime. It is important, if you use PPC and people start clicking on your $2 clicks and you can end up with 500 clicks and no sales due to the website downtime.
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  • Profile picture of the author webfighter
    If I can't believe my webhost for uptime, I won't believe any third party service either.

    Besides, in my opinion, no third party service can provide 100% uptime without an asterisk. There's a reason why the biggest webhosts guarantee (only?) 99.9% uptime.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    Uptime is critical.

    You're not going to make anything if your site is throwing 404 errors.

    Hostgator does provide a great service. It would be better with alerts and reporting though.

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    • Profile picture of the author Tom Ryan
      Uptime is extremely important to me, if my sites are down so is my income. I use hostgator and haven't had any issues. I'd say that they are pretty close to 100% uptime. I wouldn't pay any extra for it, and I really doubt and company could guarantee a 100% uptime.
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      • Profile picture of the author gzeus
        Thank you for your replies. Maybe I was unclear - I did not mean that THE SAME hosting company would charge you extra for better uptime, but that you would have something like dns failover active which keeps your site up separate from your existing host.

        I guess it's critically important but just not important enough to actually warrant a few bucks
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Kage
    I don't think I ever had problems with uptime. Is it possible to have that kind of problem?
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      Uptime is extremely important to me. I rely on my host which uses LiteSpeed and as such my sites rarely have any downtime now.

      I would not pay anything extra to guarantee uptime. If my web host doesn't deliver, I simply switch. It's as simple as that.
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