Comments on: The Best Web Hosting Companies – Our Top Picks

By: GomanC

GomanC — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:58:56 +0000

I have tried a few hosting solutions in my time and I can honestly say this list is very close to my personal list of favorites. Good call

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By: Mr-Log

Mr-Log — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:01:44 +0000

Yes for example

http://www.a1whs.com
Since: December 17, 2005
Outages: 19
Total Uptime: 99.822%

Is the uptime status from 3rd party site like siteuptime.com. Now over 4 years an uptime of 99.8% overall speaks for itself.

Outages can never be eliminated fully, you will end up with one day that is a bad day !!

By: admin

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:15:21 +0000

The best uptime would be 100%, but because things can and do break, many hosts offer 99.9% uptime guarantees. This means that if your site is not accessible for more than 43 minutes in a single month, they will reimburse you, depending on their terms of service. No one offers 100 Percent uptime, it’s not possible.

Anyway, I believe the answer to your question is variable. If your own shared hosting with any of the listed companies above I feel your just fine, there will be some down time. These companies do monitor their servers closely for issues and try to nip problems soon as detected. There security is much better than what most of us can provide.

However shared hosting can technically increase your risk of downtime. The more people using a server the higher the odds are there will be issue.