What does 99.99% uptime mean?

Uptime in minutes

Uptime	Downtime per month	Downtime per year
99%	about 7 hours 18 minutes	about 3 days 15 hours
99.9%	about 44 minutes	about 8 hours 46 minutes
99.99%	about 4 minutes 23 seconds	about 53 minutes

The gap between 99.9% and 99.99% looks small, but it means ten times less downtime.

What keeps a website online

• Reliable data centres with backup power and several network links.
• Servers with redundant storage, so a single failed drive doesn’t take websites down.
• Monitoring around the clock, so problems are fixed before most visitors notice.

What uptime doesn’t cover

Planned maintenance announced in advance, and problems within a website itself (a faulty plugin, for example), usually don’t count as downtime. Daily backups help you recover from the second.

Check it yourself

See our live server status on the Hostnali network status page.

Every Hostnali web hosting, cloud and corporate plan for businesses in Zimbabwe comes with the 99.99% uptime guarantee.