Server Uptime: Your guide in picking up the right web host
What are your consideration point when you’re shopping for the right web hosting services? Was that monthly price of the hosting package? Or it’s the hosting features? Or server storage capacity? Or…?
To pick up a good web hosting service, web server uptime is something you MUST look into. For any hosting companies to listed as “Good” in my list, regardless of the price and features, they must be able to provide reliable server uptime.
This is very important so that your website is always available in the internet. I mean, what’s the point of having 5,000 GB, 10000GB, or even unlimited GB of bandwidth transfer when your website is not accessible online?
The availability of you website is important so that it can be reach anytime.
It will be irritating if your website often experience interruption, slow loading time and so on. When your web server is down or loading slow, the user’s surfing experience will turned terribly bad, and your website’ll loose all the credibility.
To have your website running smooth, you must have a high uptime and a high traffic support so that you’re the people who access your internet gets to your website very quickly. In the industry today, the standard uptime for a good hosting company would be 99.5%.
A check on Hostgator server uptime
Now in case you wonder, here’s how Hostgator server performed for the past one month – tested at Uptime Auditor, on 15 minutes frequency.
Things seems pretty stable with Hostgator server and there’s no downtime faced for the whole August. As I already mentioned earlier, Hostgator is one of the very little web host companies that fully maintain their own datacenter. This enables folks in Hostgator to take extra care on the servers, which then lead to better server performance.