HostGator Uptime

Uptime is an important factor while choosing web hosting service. Along with uptime, response time is also equally important.

Hostgator gives 99.9% uptime guarantee. Does it really mean that hostgator give 99.9% uptime? If you check www.hostgator.com website to know the uptime, then you’ll obviously get more than 99.9% uptime.

We are here talking about customers. How much uptime each customer gets? Well, I will say uptime is largely depends on luck. If you are really unlucky then you will get really poor uptime.

You can’t judge hosting reputation just by looking at only 1 week or 15 days uptime report. You’ll need solid 1 year record to decide.

There are frequently times come when you will have to face down time due to hardware failure or any other network problem. These kinds of failures happen in every web hosting but the reliable web hosting is one who solved the problem quickly.

To find out the exact uptime of hostgator, I have setup uptime checking service with Service Uptime. Till now, I have just checked the free service. So uptime is checked every 30 minutes but now I am subscribing to paid service and uptime will be checked every 3 minutes.

So here is a result of free checking service from 13th January, 2010 to 18th January, 2010.

Hostgator uptime