how much downtime is ok

[KCareConnections]

How much downtime do you accept from a hosting provider before finding a new host? What if you noticed downtime for a few minutes each week but that was all (could you live with that?)

[igxhost]

If it's only a few minutes a week then probably as long as they have a good reason for it.

[sweetnatie]

0.001% is only acceptable. If you are interested, the best uptime I have ever had was given by such host as a2hosting.com - never went down during a year I was hosted with.

[KCareConnections]

Thanks for the input. I guess the problem with this hosting company is that they never give any reason for the downtime. They just say, No company can give you 100 percent uptime. I do not expect this, but when it happens on a weekly basis it seems a bit excessive.

[alanwalters]

Thanks for the input. I guess the problem with this hosting company is that they never give any reason for the downtime. They just say, No company can give you 100 percent uptime. I do not expect this, but when it happens on a weekly basis it seems a bit excessive.

No company can give you 100% uptime,though you don't expect this.To be honest ,that's the fact.If it possible,i think all the hosting provider want to promise you 100% uptime.

[john06]

Not more than 0.1%. Web hosting server has to do some server maintenance so downtime is expected. Just get a hosting that has multiple servers around the world so when one of the server goes down, only one of your site will go down.

[keithjames07]

Some downtime is likely to be expected but I would not say every month. Perhaps once or twice every two or three months.

[sparkliecandy]

When they have downtime every week, then go overe with it! I experienced that in my old web host. So I left them.

[namebutler]

99.9 or more

A few minutes per week would still keep them at 99.9 uptime. Its when it hits hours per week that I would leave.

[thewebhostingdir]

Almost 0% downtime & 99.9% uptime it is the best proportion ratio.

[denzeliukas]

It shouldnt be any downtimes in these times.Is there any company which can claim that?I dont think so.Lets wait and maybe in another 50 years there will be

[r0y1993]

I'd hate it even if it's only a few minutes a week. To me, it's okay when it's a few minutes per month at most.

[bozonessinc]

So would I.. I mean its really annoying when my servers go down...

Once, I was changing something on my site.. And it knocked the whole MySQL off for the company...

Luckily it was free hosting!

[zorveo]

99.9% tends to be the standard...

If there are 31,556,926 seconds in a year then with 99.9% uptime there is only 31,557 seconds of downtime which is 525.95 minutes of downtime or 8.76 hours of downtime a year. There will always be downtime with a server: You need to do reboots, upgrades, updates, etc.

[marissa jasmine rose]

Thanks for sharing this information with me..
It's can useful to increase my knowledge