A website's reliability depends a lot on the server uptime provided by the hosting company. Many companies out there today provide 99.9% server uptime. However, they will use the term up to 99.9% server uptime. This is because not all company that states that they provide 99.9% server uptime can provide 99.9% uptime. If you do find a company that lives up to that, that company would probably be using a different server for their clients.
So, there are ways of monitoring the server uptime and there are many types of system that can achieve that and some systems are free of charge. By monitoring, we can get statistics and the numbers we get could be a reference or tracking for other websites. This is because hosting that is done on the same hosting may not necessarily means that it will get the same amount of uptime. This is because hosting companies possess hundreds of server and it is virtually impossible to track the exact location on where you website is located.
To verify or test how much uptime you can get from a company, the best method is to try the company out with a free test plan and monitor its uptime with extreme detail. By doing this, you will be able to find out whether the uptime provided by the company is satisfactory or not. You should try this plan with a one month trial or test. Rather than going for a six month or yearly plan, a one month test will be sufficient for you to judge the uptime of the provider. After the testing, you could decide whether or not you should commit yourself to a longer term deal with either 6 months or one year.
