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Thermit
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The experience of visiting your website and getting nothing back can be quite disturbing. Visitors may be writing off your site as dead, any money your site might earn suddenly stops, and the search engines might even drop your site or at least they could index an error page like "Can't connect to SQL DB" instead of all your great content and keywords (actually happened to one of my sites recently!). If that wasn't enough, there can be other negative impacts, if you have ads on a PPC network like AdWords, Google monitors might happen to check your site and disable your ad campain (I've seen this happen too!)

Downtime certainly can happen from time to time for various reasons, and no site can be completely immune. Even Google was recently unavailable to many.

All things considered, wow much downtime would you accept from a hosting provider before you became fed up enough to go through the hassle of packing up your files, sending out the change of nameserver notice and shacking-up with a new host? One hour? Lots of small down periods? A day?
Post Sun Aug 22, 2004 2:24 pm
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I think i will only accept the most 10 min downtime. More than that i think i will not use that host.

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Post Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:41 pm
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Thermit
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I hate to admit it, but I've put up with much worse.

If your host doesn't treat you and your site right, it might be time to start looking for a new host and studying-up on the following article..

Changing hosts
Post Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:22 pm
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I hate to admit it, but I've put up with much worse.

If your host doesn't treat you and your site right, it might be time to start looking for a new host and studying-up on the following article..

Changing hosts


But now most plan pay by yearly. so if you get this problem and would like to change the host that will be quite troublesome. So i advice ppls to check b4 choosing the hosts.

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Post Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:52 am
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Oliver



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before i was a host i ust to go with any host that oferd cheap hosting, but what i got was lots of downtime, slow server and more, but the only host i was happy is Darkstarllc.com. And i would only accept 10 mins at most of downtime per month.

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Post Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:22 pm
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sean phillips



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I recently signed up with this company after my previous host said that I had a day to backup my data and that they were shutting down. Being novice to web hosting I was left in a rut, considering i have been with my previous host for over 2 years. I wasnt sure how to transfer my existing site and so i asked one of the technicians at onthespothosting and he stated that they normally do not move accounts for their clients but he was willing to help me out. Turns out there were also an array of configuration issues with the mysql database that the site uses. David from support spent about 2 hours resolving the issue. Regardless I believe any hosting company that goes above and beyond for their customers should be comended.
Post Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:24 am
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I'd accept about 10 minutes downtown, too. I do not appreciate downtime, so I host with 1&1 Smile
Post Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:31 pm
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Orion



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I do not like to accept any downtime, but unfortunately with the host i am with at the moment that is not an option i have. They are often down for at least 1hour a month. Quite often more then that. Acceptable downtime maybe would be 5 minutes maybe 2 or 3 times a month max.

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Post Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:28 am
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Arura



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I can accept it it is not regulary, and they keep me informed about the reasons, how long it will last and have a policy to refund downtim. I think they must have a very good reason for the downtime.
Post Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:06 pm
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