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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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Your Domain Name Expired: What Happens Day by Day, and How to Get It Back
A lapsed .com is not lost on its expiry date. Your registrar may let you renew it, usually for up to 45 days, then you can buy it back for 30 more, and it waits 5 days before anyone else can register it. What breaks in each phase, and how to recover it.
SSL Certificates Now Max Out at 200 Days, and 47 by 2029: A Renewal Plan for Website Owners
Since 15 March 2026 a public SSL/TLS certificate can be valid for at most 200 days; the limit falls to 100 days in 2027 and 47 days in 2029. What changes for your site, how often you will renew, and the seven steps that keep the padlock from lapsing.