Every time a person sends a request to your website the website responds back with a answer.  The path that a request follows to reach the server and the answer going back is called a route. The number of times the response goes back from the server seamlessly to the person sending the request is known as uptime. Due to the complications involved there may be some times a response gets rejected by some router or another along the path or route. An ideal situation is 99% + uptime from ALL MAJOR WORLD CENTRES.

Most Indian companies just parametrize their servers from the country they host in. That is why customers who have been once bitten twice shy insist for US servers which is actually not necessary when you deal with a good host. 

A good host like Aquarius Webhosting Pvt. Ltd. understands that the person surfing the site may come in from US, UK or even a remote dial up in Alaska.  So any site hosted with us should be parameterized for uptime from not from the room next door, or the country but the whole world. Not only from a leased circuit but from dial up, wireless or even GPRS. 

As you can see a request from US crosses 14 routers to reach our servers. A a webhost its our duty to ensure as much a humanly and mechanically possible the path across all 14 routers is clean. Multiply this by the millions of other routers out in cyber space and you get a basic idea of the enormity of the task.  This is why we have a completely independent team which monitors the weather of the Internet, which like normal weather has its high and low pressure areas and reacts invisibly to the client to ensure our uptimes.

A lot of webhosting companies just measure the uptimes from the next router in line. Which means of course 100% uptime since it is in the same room in some cases. So the next time a webhost tells you they have 100 % uptime, be sure to ask them FROM WHERE?

Our uptimes are measured by an independent agency and our uptime of Oct to date is 99.48% from US & UK averaged. From India of course its 100%. If you would like proof of the same, please click here try our 7 day FREE no strings attached trial.

If you would like to check out the latest Internet Weather  and congestion over the Far East click here for a java map