Uptime and Downtime Cheat Sheet

The Royal Pingdom blog has released a handy guide explaining exactly what uptimes and downtimes mean for your blog or website. While the conversion between hours and minutes may take some time, you no longer have to perform that task when you analyze how often your site has gone down and figuring out whether your web host is actually sticking with their guarantees.

For example, with a 97% uptime, you’ll see 21 hours and 36 minutes monthly downtime, 10 days, 22 hours, 48 minutes yearly downtime. Plus, you could use the chart the other way and use the amount of downtime you’ve seen to find what the uptime percentage is.

In web hosting, the most ideal uptime is 99.9%, or 43 minutes per month, 8 hours and 46 minutes per year. The best case scenario is that you see that amount of time or less.