Web Hosting : 99.99% uptime baloney

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This web hosting thread started by dextergo on 17 October 2008

Before I started my idea to become a hosting company myself by a hosting reseller account.

I went through at least 5 different hosting companies. They were all highly rated. Said that 99.99% uptime.

I never encountered a hosting company that was really 99.99% uptime. I don’t want to name the names anymore but some of them were down for half a day to a day. And this happened at least 2 to 4x a month.

Is it just me? Everyone says they are 99.99% but it never happened to me.

So now, I am planning to be a hosting myself. What are the reasons why the server is down. Because I want to avoid them.

Is it just a matter of those hosting companies cramming to many clients in limited resources?

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