What is Uptime

Any website you want to set up or launch for your customers should be accessible, of course. As soon as a visitor accesses your website in their browser, they want it to load. The time a website is online is called uptime, and any time a website is unavailable is called downtime. Let's dive deeper and find out what uptime is, what percentage MijnHostingPartner.nl can guarantee for it and how you can further monitor it yourself.

Website uptime is important for anyone who is serious about their website. For any project that you want to have online on the Internet, uptime is therefore very important. With the following tips and tricks, you can ensure that your website has the highest uptime possible.

Tools for monitoring uptime

There are several ways to keep an eye on the uptime of your website: If you want to check from the outside if your website is up, you can use the dnschecker.org tool. And if you want to have a special tool installed for this purpose, you can create an account at uptimerobot. For free, you can keep an eye on 50 websites using this tool, just not for SSL certificates. By paying for uptimerobot, more becomes possible. There are several online tools that can be used for this. MIjnHostingPartner.nl has no other connection with it. This is just one example that is often used for this purpose.

Uptime tools check if your website is online by checking the status code. For example, with a 200 status code everything is fine, while with a 404 or 500 error message there may be a problem. The error message is extremely important in determining where the error lies, so always pay attention to it.

The uptime of a website, what factors can affect it?

The uptime of a website can be affected by many factors, the most common reasons are:

• An incorrect update of a website or a part of it, both automatic and manual updates.
• An outdated technology version (PHP)
• An infected website or a website that has been taken over by malicious parties
  
• An expired SSL certificate
  
• Work by the hosting party or other downtime for which no direct action can be taken.
  

The most common messages can be resolved by checking the status code and then fixing the error message. For WordPress websites , for example, this can often be quickly resolved by enabling advanced error messages and fixing them. Or by switching to a different PHP version. This has a significant impact on the operation of a site.

It also happens that a site is inaccessible due to a redirect loop or other loop. For example, a database connection that does not close properly. Or a redirect to a specific page or link that is no longer accessible. Again, status codes and error messages are the way to go. The debug tools in your Internet browser can help. They can be opened with F12 in most cases.

The uptime of MijnHostingPartner.nl

An uptime of 100% is unfortunately not possible, because the various servers and data centers are updated. Our uptime is 99.99% and is possible thanks to a variety of precautions and technologies. We also perform server updates and restarts when there is the least activity on a server. This usually happens deep into the night. The work we perform is always scheduled as far in advance as possible and then announced via the announcements. We always try to limit downtime as much as possible. Thanks to our worldwide DNS solution, our uptime is very high. So use a reliable hosting partner and sign up for your hosting package right now!

We are ready to provide you with this high uptime for your website.