Uptime monitoring for Web Hosts

by | Jan 17, 2006 | Server Administration

Many hosts advertise 99.99% uptime or anything above 99.9%. Is 99.9% any different from 99.99%. Does it make a difference to anyone. The difference is only 0.09%, for crying out loud!! Well, there is a difference. A 99.99% uptime means 54.84 minutes of downtime a...

Server Load – The Basics

by | Jan 3, 2006 | Server Administration

Load, in computing, is a measure of the amount of processing a computer system is currently performing, usually in the form of a scalar and as some variation on a percentage. – Wikipedia definition. In a *nix variant, Server load can be calculated by the uptime,...