Uptime, as described in a number of our other articles, is the measurement of how long a web server is online and functional for.
I’m sure you’ve been there – you’ve gone to visit a website to find some information only to be returned with the infamous 404 error message meaning the page cannot be found? This often means the web server that the page or website is on that you’ve requested has gone offline and is down.
Of course, no one ever wants this to happen to their site – it looses visitors and potential customers, so having a good web hosting company is important, as is having a server with a good uptime report.
A lot of web hosting companies boast they can offer 99.9% uptime, which means that their web servers will be active, functional and online for 99.9% of the time (often on a per-month basis)
