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What 99.9% Uptime Really Means: 43 Minutes a Month, and What Your Host Owes You When It Breaks

A host that promises 99.9% uptime may keep your website offline for 43 minutes in a 30-day month and almost 9 hours a year. What each level of nines allows, what six hosting and cloud SLAs pay back when they miss it, what downtime does in Google, and how to measure your own uptime for free.

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October 22, 20269 min read