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Industry estimates indicate that Internet businesses can loose
on average about $15,000 for every hour of downtime. This figure
combines the cost of repairs with the cost of lost opportunities
and sales. For an Internet-enabled business, downtime can mean
devastating losses in revenue and credibility.
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For what ever reason, organizations have
accepted these losses, regardless of expense, as an
unavoidable cost of doing business on the Internet.
Most web hosting provider don't really care about uptime
at all. They throw the 99.9% number but don't do anything
if they don't meet that objective. Did you know that
99.9% means about 7 hours of downtime a month. Image
having your website take a day off once a month. If
they go beyond 8 hours does a hosting company offer
you nothing in return?? Most do not!! Even more scary
are companies that keep their Internet operations in-house,
primarily due to a lack of knowledge about available
options. They believe they can manage that infrastructure
better by doing it themselves. They do not consider
power redundancy, Internet feed capacity, server loads,
security, and the list goes on. The cost to operate
your own web server and maintain it over 5 years can
cost well over $25,000 a Year.
The Outsourcing Option:
By outsourcing responsibility for Internet infrastructure
to the right service provider, a company gains access
to state-of-the-art, highly redundant systems that ensure
reliability and free up internal staff to focus their
efforts on building and managing Web site content and
applications. Today outsourcing your servers to companies
can cost as little as a hundred and so dollars a month.
Website hosting ranges from free to cheap to fair priced
web hosting firms who charge about $25 per website per
month but offer guarantees and focus on business needs.
Try to always ask your new hosting provider for a copy
of the service level agreement. Try to find one one
that offer 100% uptime and will provide you a discount
the moment that is not meant. If you can do this you
will get a greater return on investment.
About The Author
Domenic is co-founder of Rebel Networks. Rebel Networks
is a leading provider of outsourced Internet infrastructure
and related managed web solutions. Rebel Networks services
include the provision of managed dedicated servers,
unmanaged collocation services, domain names services,
& shared web hosting solutions. All backed by a
100% SLA visit www.rebelnetworks.com
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