SuperWebPeople.com agrees to use its best endeavors to ensure a 99.9% Network Uptime and 99.5% Server Uptime to the customers. Downtime is referred to as our server or network equipment being down and not ping able. Downtime excludes scheduled maintenance window which the maintenance notice shall be posted on our Support Center or email to our clients at least 3 (three) working days before the schedule date. Here are some common guarantees in the industry today and the actual amount of downtime per month involved.

99.5% uptime = 216 minutes of downtime in a month
99.8% uptime = 86.4 minutes of downtime in a month
99.9% uptime = 43.2 minutes of downtime in a month
99.99% uptime = 4.32 minutes of downtime in a month
99.999% uptime = 0.432 minutes (26 seconds) in a month

Customer shall not receive any credits under this 99.9% Network Uptime and 99.5% Server Uptime Guarantee in connection with any failure or deficiency of Web Site Availability caused by or associated with:

1. Circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of God, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, terrorism, sabotage, armed conflict, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of or interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services, virus attacks or hackers, failure of third party software (including, without limitation, ecommerce software, payment gateways, chat, statistics or free scripts) or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of this SLA;
    

2. Failure of access circuits to our network, unless such failure is caused solely by SuperWebPeople.com;
    

3. Scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades;
    

4. DNS issues outside the direct control of SuperWebPeople.com;
    

5. Issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP customer access;
    

6. False SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or errors of any SuperWebPeople.com measurement system;
    

7. Customer's acts or omissions (or acts or omissions of others engaged or authorized by customer), including, without limitation, custom scripting or coding (e.g., CGI, Perl, HTML, ASP, etc), any negligence, willful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of our Terms of Service Policy;
    

8. Email or webmail delivery and transmission;
    

9. DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation.
    

10. Outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to your account. SuperWebPeople.com is not responsible for browser or DNS caching that may make your site appear inaccessible when others can still access it. SuperWebPeople.com will guarantee only those areas considered under the control of SuperWebPeople.com: our server links to the Internet, our routers, and our servers.

In the event of Server Downtime or Network Downtime which is (i) due to problem within SuperWebPeople.com and (ii) if the total Server Downtime or Network Downtime exceeds specific numbers of hours consecutively (as specified in Table 1 below) in a calendar month, customer may claim for an Outage Event Credit (OEC). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the maximum amount of OEC can be claimed shall not exceed 50% of the total Monthly Fee for the Service provided, and this is limited to once in a calendar month frequency.

Why do reliable web hosting companies offer uptime guarantees backed with real credits or refunds to customer accounts?

We have been involved in the hosting industry since year 2001 and have seen many of our competitors come and go. Many web hosting companies failed because they are not committed to taking great care of their customers. If a web host has nothing to lose when your site is down, then their commitment and speed in restoring your site may not be the best.

Outage Event Credit (OEC)

In reality, an uptime guarantee may only mean a small refund or account credit for you, but if your web host is refunding or crediting every client on their server due to not meeting the guaranteed uptime, this could mean significant losses for them. For example, we have a server with maximum of no more than 300 accounts at US 56/year each. If the server went down and it took us 48 hours to restore the service, that will means we only able to achieve 93.34% of uptime, which would translate to a loss of US 313.00 for the month on that server alone. Obviously it is also in our best interest to get the troubled server up and running as fast as possible.

Are the Server and Network Uptime Guarantee considered to be web site or business insurance?

We are in the web hosting business, not the insurance business. Our Server and Network Uptime Guarantee are in no way to be interpreted as an insurance product. Since the maximum amount of credits that can be applied to any web hosting account is the actual amount paid by the customer per month, quarter or year then obviously it is not sufficient to “cover” any damages caused by any server or network outage. We recognize that web sites cost money to develop, maintain and ecommerce sites can experience loss of sales and income when an outage occurs. We do not however offer any compensation for these types of losses as stated in our Terms of Service. While we do perform daily backups on all servers, it is the customer’s responsibility to maintain their own site backups on their local computers at all times and if deemed necessary, obtain insurance products from reputable insurance providers to cover any loss of business or sales.

SuperWebPeople.com reserves the right to make any modifications, amendments, revisions or changes to this Server Uptime and Network Uptime Guarantee at any time. Customer will be notified prior to any changes or variation to Server Uptime and Network Uptime Guarantee.