November 2013

As technology advanced and the Internet became a crucial part of doing business, many did not anticipate that website downtime would actually become an increasingly-common problem. After all, if the uptime of your website is critical to your business's bottom line, downtime should be anything but acceptable. Unfortunately, it seems as though website downtime is indeed becoming the rule rather than the exception. If you do business online, it's important to understand why website downtime is becoming a growing concern and why it seems to be getting worse rather than better.

Here at Alertra we often discuss the importance of using a reliable hosting company. If your host's servers go down, you want to ensure that the company will take the necessary steps to get your site up and running as quickly as possible. Even outages that last a few hours can cost your company significant profits and can cause you quite a bit of frustration. What if you were to experience an outage that lasted days? That's exactly what has happened to some Dreamhost customers, and the online community is abuzz.