Reading Time: 11 minutes As an online business owner, your website is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (this includes all time zones). It makes no difference if your customers are on the other side of the world in Toronto (2:00 p.m.) or Vancouver (3:00 a.m.), you should always be ready to assist them with their purchases or inquiries. People often associate the term "Uptime" as an indicator of how often you cannot utilize your website due to some sort of breakdown (e.g., the screen is blank; you are not receiving emails or generating revenue). The ability to maintain an ongoing presence online is not a matter of luck; it’s about the framework of support for your company’s brand. The risk of losing a customer’s trust due time (just a few) has never been greater, and this is why Managed Services are critical. At 4goodhosting, we have had the opportunity to see firsthand how the proper setup can turn a poorly built website into an impenetrable digital workplace. This guide will outline the mechanics of how Managed Services deliver a WordPress uptime guarantee managed hosting users can count on, and explain why Managed Services are the secret to reliable hosting for your business website. Beyond the Percentage: What Uptime Really Means Most of the hosting providers on the web feature a "guaranteed 99.9% uptime". It sounds nice when it's put on an advertisement page, yet let's do some numbers and reflect on these numbers for a moment. In a year, 0.1% downtime equates to nearly 9 hours of your website being completely down. For high-traffic e-Commerce businesses or professional service businesses, a 9-hour period of downtime doesn't mean a slow afternoon; you're talking the potential loss of thousands of dollars in sales, wasted resources from marketing/advertising, and a drop in your SEO ranking. Managed Hosting Services' assurance of uptime is not just a claim from the manufacturer of your managed hosting account, but the experience you will have when you have a managed hosting account. Managed Hosting provides numerous methods to avoid outages. 4GoodHosting takes a "preventative medicine" approach and does not simply allow you to fix your server after it...
