We do offer the 99.9% uptime and 30 day guarantee, and if you are looking for hosting, it is imperative that you find a hosting company that offer this! If you do not, you are just asking for trouble!

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But how do you know your site will be up 99.9% of the time when choosing a host?

My host came highly recommended and makes the 99.9% claim, but one of my sites is down ALL the time, particularly at the exact moment advertising goes out to thousands of targeted people.

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That's a good point. You don't always know.

With regards to server going down when receiving large hits....
If you're on a weak server or if there are too many websites on it, a crash can happen. Although, it's good practice to notify your host if you are expecting a large number of visits in a short period of time

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How do you know if they're putting you on a weak server? When you sign up, you expect your site to be up 99.9% of the time. That's what you're paying for.

Every time I called to complain (which is a lot), they always said it was because of someone else's site.

They tried to move mine to another server last week but ended up causing so much trouble, they had to move it back.

So, how do you know if a host really does offer 99.9% uptime? When I called, mine wasn't even aware my site was down until I complained. And this is a huge company, not some dude offering hosting out of his basement.

Diane

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That's a good point. You don't necessarily know. If you message me, I can give you some hints.

There's just so many factors involved that could affect performance of the server, type of server, hardware, security, connection, etc...

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Here is an interesting article on uptime: http://www.virtuallyignorant.com/uptimeguarantees.html

And http://news.netcraft.com/ can sometimes help on uptimes.

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Usually, the limiting factor in any shared hosting environment is the CPU load. If you have a site (like this forum) that uses a database, and it gets really busy, a shared hosting environment just won't cut it. I've found that some of the smaller ones tend to offer better performance than the big names. I would recommend:
page-zone.com, hostdime.com, westhost.com and dathorn.com
whreviews.com is also a good place to some honest recommendations.

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