3 hours downtime last month, good or bad?

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I've recently started to use pindom to monitor my shared hosting(bluehost), and the result of the first month is 22 downtimes which is a total of 3 hours. The longest downtime is 1h5m, and mostly it's 5 mins here and there.

Well, I'm not very happy with this result, but would some experienced people please tell me is this acceptable or not compared to other hosting companies?
 
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I don't think that's good, even though the total downtime was just 3 hours. With Hostgator, I think I haven't experienced any downtime yet.
 
If it wasn't a planned outage - and it seems it wasn't - that's a lot. It's something like 99.5% uptime instead of the standard 99.9%.
 
That's a lot of downtime, got hosting, that was not in downtime not even for a minute for 3 years.
 
Yes, that is a lot of downtime. Bluehost have a pretty good reputation, so I'm a bit surprised. Hostgator is good, I've not had any downtime from them. Stay away from webhostingpad, you get more downtime than uptime!
 
eli.xir said:
Hurricane Sandy? What was reason for downtime?
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They don't give out any information about it, every time I tried to ask them why they just told me either it's because of "somebody's abusing" or "there's something wrong with your hosting node blah blah..."
 
camuk said:
Yes, that is a lot of downtime. Bluehost have a pretty good reputation, so I'm a bit surprised. Hostgator is good, I've not had any downtime from them. Stay away from webhostingpad, you get more downtime than uptime!
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I've been with bluehost for about 2 and a half years, and for the first 2 years everything works all right until recently about two months ago I experienced downtime every once a while just on my random surfing/editing my site, and their support just didn't help at all except kept saying we are sorry for your inconvenience then I decided to monitor the hosting myself and till today it's just over a month.

From the result I got, I can see there's always some downtime(5min to 10min here and there) every 3 to 4 days.

I guess I need to transfer to other hosting companies. The good reputation of bluehost is gone to me.
 
All the people saying their hosting hasn't been down a minute in years are mistaken. Their hosting hasn't been down because they haven't been monitoring it.

There are almost constant updates for all the running services and panels on a server. A good server will run backup routines daily which will slow response times and maybe drop some packets. 3 hrs in a month? I'd say that pretty good hosting.

For those that haven't been down a minute in years I'd be scared to death. Your kernels and software hasn't been updated and the server hasn't been rebooted in years? Impossible to believe but if true you're a sitting duck for hackers.

Anything above 99% is great in my book. I think you're worrying about nothing.
 
I agree with kvmcable. If your hosting haven't been down for a single minute, i would be really scared. No update nothing? You probably haven't been monitoring it at all or your hosting doesn't give a shit about you as a customer. There should be downtime, but not to much.
 
As long as google is not trying to crawl you while you are down it will not make a different you know.
 
Ste Hughes said:
As long as google is not trying to crawl you while you are down it will not make a different you know.
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So you're saying that there is no possibility of a lost customer conversion?... Websites don't sell to google, they sell to consumers. Downtime = no views by consumers = no purchases by them.


Dump the host and find one with better uptime and informs you of problems.
 
3 hours downtime is nothing. i see a lot less stable websites still ranking well on google.
 
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