6 Truths About Web Hosting

If you're not used to thinking about issues of network availability and reliability, we hope you'll keep the following in mind when choosing a host.

Since we are mainly engaged in website and server monitoring, we also often focus on these issues. Some of the operational staff at Pingdom have gained a lot of relevant experience from their work in web hosting. This means that in terms of web hosting, we have guidance from professionals as well as participation from regular users. Therefore, we believe we are qualified to share some unique insights with everyone regarding web hosting.

* No web host can guarantee 100% uptime over the long term.

It's simply impossible to be up forever. They might be able to go for months without any issues, but it's not possible to sustain that indefinitely. This is because there are many factors involved in keeping a network running (such as network connections, power, hardware failures, software problems, human errors, etc.), and hosts cannot fully control all of these factors.