What is Uptime Explained
Uptime is the way of measuring the continuous time of hosting system activities. Probably uptime would be at 100 % (i.e zero downtime) but in the real world this is extremely difficult to achieve.
Generally, Uptime is the number of hours that a server is working and available and is the opposite of downtime.
Why Is Uptime Important ?
Uptime is very needy thing in hosting environment. On the off chance that your site isn’t accessible then clearly this negatively affects your business. Clients and potential clients can not see your site so you may lose business. You can not send or get mails. Perhaps Google sees that your site is questionable and this will leads to negative SEO.
How Is Uptime Calculated ?
Uptime is calculated based on the number of hours that the system (server) is available during a given period of time and is expressed as a percentage.
For example, annual uptime is calculated as follows:
Number of hours or uptime divided by Number of hours per year multiplied by 100
For example. We know that there are 365 days per year so in terms of hours there are a total of 365 x 24 = 8760 hours.
So if there was 4 hours of downtime per year then that would mean that there are 8756 of uptime (i.e. 8760 hours minus 4 hours downtime). So the calculation would be:
(8756 / 8760) x 100 = 99.95%
So in this case the uptime is 99.95%
What Uptime Does Square Brothers Offer ?
Square Brothers offfer a 99.9 % uptime but we usually exceed this.
Server Uptime
The most widely recognized downtime however is at the server level. Servers comprise of various parts that could prompt disappointment, for example, power supplies and hard drives.
With a specific end goal to prevent downtime and to guarantee large amounts of uptime measured by below features.
Double Power Supplies
All of our facilitating servers utilize double power supplies to guarantee that the server keeps working regularly in case of a power supply disappointment
Utilization of RAID
RAID remains for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and is a method for putting away information over numerous hard drives by means of a RAID Controller so that in case of an equipment disappointment on one drive there is no loss of information or interference of the administration. With Square Brothers’s Shared and Reseller Hosting Plans we utilize RAID 10 with hot swap hard drives.
Hot Swap Hard Drives
Hot Swap Hard Drives are type of drive that can be removed whilst the server is operational and can be replaced in the RAID Array to ensure a high level of uptime.
Cloud Virtual Server
With a Cloud VPS information is put away in a few physical servers in this manner drastically enhancing Uptime. This can also be referred to as High Availability Hosting.