Saturday, July 30, 2011

How important is Uptime?

By William MacMahon


One of the most trusted marketing channels nowadays is a website. As more and more people became reliant and dependent to the internet and as mobility is currently the situation for most consumers, websites are now becoming the primary tool to market one company's product and services. As globalization and technology reached new heights, having a place in this powerful world can be very rewarding.

As such, finding a very good web hosting company to host your website should be your primary concern. Hosting company plays a major role in ensuring that your website has a very desirable uptime percentage. Although it can be appropriate to ask web hosting companies to guarantee a one hundred percent uptime, this is not possible. Most hosting company can only guarantee up to 99.9% percent of an uninterrupted runtime, any more than this is not practical and definitely unachievable.

Uptime is very important to every company's website as this ensures accessibility and availability to consumers. If you have a high percentage of uptime, you are ensured that your products and services can be viewed and by potential clients at all given time.

As such, companies are taking advantage by creating websites that will get more consumers enter a transaction with them at all possible time and in any place that an internet is available.

For websites catering international clients, your website should be up and running twenty four hours of each day. Unlike an office wherein working hours are restricted to office hours, a website does not have a limit when it comes to availability. It is important that client can reach you and get in touch with you through your website at any given time they desire.

Now, the most important thing you must consider is when a search engine explores the web for whatever the consumer is looking for, they take note of what you are offering. Search engines have evolved to become very effective that they can take note of the availability of a certain website. This means that since they want to achieve the highest satisfaction from their users, they make sure that the website they suggest to them are of good quality.

To reach the potentiality of your website in bringing more transactions to your company, you have to find yourself a good web hosting company. This hosting company must be able to ensure highest uptime percentage to your website. Find a company that offers packages that ensure backup in times when an unavoidable situation happens and downtime is uncontrollable. It may be true that there are instances that cannot be controlled, however, being able to fix the problem of malfunctioning or an error occurrence in the shortest possible time must be guaranteed

To be able to have the best uptime, you have to find your website a good web hosting company. A web hosting company is the one responsible for your website's availability. Depending on the credibility of a hosting company, a ninety nine percent uptime must be achieved to be able to maximize the potential of your website. No matter how good your website is, the key to achieving high traffic is for your website to be up all the time. A good web hosting company will be your ticket to get the full potentiality of being among the top in search engines ranking.




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