45 minutes of downtime = 99%

[furca]

I was asking my host about something and they said this


Staff: 99.9% = 45 minutes of downtime/month



I was amazed, never knew it was that much, Now im really scared about what 99.5% hosts lol!

 

[GT Web]

yes, its very complicated to figure these things out... :wink:

60 minutes per hour X 24 hours = 1440 minutes per day
1440 minutes X 30 days = 43200 minutes per month
43200 minutes per month X 0.001 (or 0.1 percent, the amount of downtime) = around 45 minutes of downtime per month

 

[Keith]

45 minutes downtime in one month is very little.

 

[GT Web]

....thats only 90 seconds per day, very little indeed, it would be interesting to see how many hosts guarantee it compared to how many actually deliver it

 

[Steen]

I have never seem to had straight downtime with my current host, but if anything I got MySQL/PHP problems.

 

[darrenl]

None for me yet...

 

[Anthony Ng]

Yes, servers and downtime are twins. And the tricky thing is that some lay people would think 99% uptime is good, not realizing that it actually means more than 7 hours per month.

I too haven't noticed much difference between 99.97% and 99.7% until very recently, as most people won't notice that couple of hours spreading across the month, unless yours is a really critical project (AND you have income being generated every minute).

For most webmasters, 99.9% is good enough (not *great* though), but anything worse than 99.7% is usually considered sub-standard. You just need to strike a balance between cost and performance that suits YOUR needs.