how much hosting downtime is acceptable?

[gdubs12345]

ive been using the company asmallorange.com for a while and they have really good support and had no problems with them for long time.

Lately there has been around 3 or more hours of downtime a week that i noticed, and last weekend my site was down for almost 2 days. Its been like this for a couple months. I have plenty of freetime to write this because i cant work on my site that is down, and my ppc is going to a site that isnt up.

How much downtime do you guy think is acceptable?

 

[-Matt-]

ive been using the company asmallorange.com for a while and they have really good support and had no problems with them for long time.

Lately there has been around 3 or more hours of downtime a week that i noticed, and last weekend my site was down for almost 2 days. Its been like this for a couple months. I have plenty of freetime to write this because i cant work on my site that is down, and my ppc is going to a site that isnt up.

How much downtime do you guy think is acceptable?

Definitely not that amount of downtime. You need to move hosts.

 

[Dr_Ngo]

absolutely none

 

[BluuueJammm]

I put up with a few minutes every couple of weeks or so. I think couple of hours a week is totaly unaceptable, and if one of my sites was offline for more than a few hours in one go I would be switching hosts.

 

[pat J]

0.01%

 

[nickycakes]

vps time

 

[Red_Virus]

I think it's time to switch now, that is lot of downtime.

 

[BigWill]

0 downtime

I would rage if that happened to me

 

[pacman0r]

most good hosts provide 99.9% uptime... so yeah .01 is the acceptable margin here.

 

[nachoninja]

zero

 

[John]

I'd flip if my site was down for 2+ hours let alone days

 

[gopher]

99.99%

So far my host has been up 100%.

 

[MyOwnDemon]

I think .01% is acceptable downtime. Shit happens sometimes. But, when that shit happens, it needs to be fixed ASAP.

 

[Signul9]

I say depends...

Normally 0%...

But once I had a host go down, and when I called they explained one of their Texas data centers caught fire / blew up. It caught me soo off guard and the thought of a data center explosion just cracked me up. So I let it go, poured out a little liquor for the servers that got smoked, and in about 6 hours everything was back.

 

[AdExhibitJason]

Switch now.

 

[Sticks79]

99.99%

So far my host has been up 100%.

Who are you with?

affiliate link accepted

 

[TuesZ]

Shit happens... If it happens too often then switch. It's also about speed though. ResellerZoom is pretty good. They also support your customers if you want to actually sell a few cPanel accounts instead of just running all your domains in their own cpanels.

 

[Drake]

Google will stomp on your rankings with that much downtime. Move.