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What is an uptime guarantee?
Web hosts generally make guarantees about the amount of time your site will be up, i.e. visible to users. If the site is unreachable for a longer time than their guarantee specifies, you will be compensated for that period of time (usually by crediting you with the time lost, based on your hosting fees). Most have a 99.9% guarantee, some go for 100%. We have not chosen to list this in our comparison chart because the difference is pretty insignificant, and the amount of compensation fairly minimal. Also, there are a handful of exceptions that void these guarantees.
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