Comments on: Worst uptime guarantees ever http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/12/worst-uptime-guarantees-ever/ Ramblings and tech news from the Pingdom team Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: IT’s About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog » Top 4 Questions to Ask Your Outsourced Infrastructure Provider about Uptime and Availability http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/12/worst-uptime-guarantees-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-77118 IT’s About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog » Top 4 Questions to Ask Your Outsourced Infrastructure Provider about Uptime and Availability Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:34:40 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=224#comment-77118 [...] While you may agree on 99.9% uptime – is it measure daily? Monthly? On a 3 month sliding scale? Annually? This can be the difference between an outage lasting 1.4 minutes to an outage lasting 8.5 hours being considered within your contracted downtime allowance. As pingdom points out, there are many hosting companies out there with poor or odd uptime guarantees. [...] [...] While you may agree on 99.9% uptime – is it measure daily? Monthly? On a 3 month sliding scale? Annually? This can be the difference between an outage lasting 1.4 minutes to an outage lasting 8.5 hours being considered within your contracted downtime allowance. As pingdom points out, there are many hosting companies out there with poor or odd uptime guarantees. [...]

]]> By: Catherine Helzerman http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/12/worst-uptime-guarantees-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-42281 Catherine Helzerman Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:44:11 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=224#comment-42281 I've always thought those 95% guarantees were a riot also. Claims on the other end are funny as well, like companies claiming five 9's (99.999% - about five minutes of downtime a year), knowing full well most users have no idea what kind of set up you'd need to actually achieve reliability like that. Sure, you can get that for $9.99 a month, why not? heh I’ve always thought those 95% guarantees were a riot also. Claims on the other end are funny as well, like companies claiming five 9′s (99.999% – about five minutes of downtime a year), knowing full well most users have no idea what kind of set up you’d need to actually achieve reliability like that. Sure, you can get that for $9.99 a month, why not? heh

]]> By: Data Center Knowledge http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/12/12/worst-uptime-guarantees-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-38403 Data Center Knowledge Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:46:01 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=224#comment-38403 <strong>Worst Uptime Guarantees...</strong> Pingdom: Some hosting companies are trying to impress their customers with guarantees of 95 percent uptime. ... Worst Uptime Guarantees…

Pingdom: Some hosting companies are trying to impress their customers with guarantees of 95 percent uptime. …

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