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Significance of Network Uptime in Web Hosting
Choosing a web hosting service is a critical business decision. It’s based on a number of key factors. One of such factors is network uptime. It refers to the total amount of time that the server of your chosen web hosting service runs without any hindrance or interruption.
With countless web hosting providers on the Web and making the market noisy with their 100% network uptime claims, it becomes important to delve into this issue completely and then choose the web hosting provider for your online business.
May web hosting providers today claim that they offer 100% uptime to their users. However, such claims are most often fake since absolute uptime is practically impossible irrespective of the infrastructure and best of hardware & software components availability. However, claims of 98%, 99%, 99.9% etc. sound more genuine, and can be achieved.
In such a fierce competitive business as domain & web hosting , such high network uptime claims are made by many but proved right by only a few. Even the honchos operating in the business also many a times fail to deliver good network up time die to some unavoidable outages and architectural flaws. However, the customer must go through other user’s feedback, reviews & comments in this regard before finalizing the provider.
Let us understand the two forms of network downtime. The first category is that of planned downtime, which is a periodical, planned downtime. This downtime is schedule for regular server maintenance & other security concerns. This kind of downtime is unavoidable, and is not a part of network uptime guaranteed by the providers.
The second type of downtime is unplanned. This many a times causes severe losses to the users and their businesses. This occurs when the provider is unable to control the outages, and so to avoid any more such outages they formulate & deploy several strategies. The companies formulate such disaster management plans by deploying clustered servers so that even if one of the servers crashes, there is another one to support all the sites hosted on the crashed server.
Now, the question arises as to why the server should be up. Your website is your virtual store on the Web, which must be accessible to users round the clock. Hence, your website must be always up & running. If your site is inaccessible most of the time, you can incur serious losses since your potential customers would hop on other sites if they find yours unavailable.
Not only is it vital for big businesses, but also for personal use too. During downtime, serious miscommunication can take place, and important messages might get delayed. Also, network uptime is one of the key factors which account for reliability of a web hosting provider. Each company tries to outpace its competitors when it comes to network uptime.
With my years of web experience, I can suggest LimeDomains, FatCow, HostGator etc. as some good web hosting providers, which have appreciable architectural infrastructures to offer maximum network uptime to their users worldwide.
So, consider this aspect very carefully and then choose the web hosting provider for your online business.
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| Category: Articles | Added by: forex_s (2010-01-11)
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