Thanks for viewing our statistics for October. Below, you will find our Uptime Report for October. 2007.

As you can see there were five days in which there were problems with server outages and reliability. Let’s take a closer look:

October 9th: 5 minutes
October 12th, 5 minutes
October 23rd, 5 minutes
October 25th, 25 minutes
October 30th, 35 minutes

First, we need to keep in mind we only send page load requests every 5 minutes. So if the server was only down for 30 seconds, we will report the problem as 5 minutes. We could change the server pings to 1 minute but it would overload the shared server we are on and use too many resources.

We are considering having a blank loader page used as the testing page. This would require a very small page to load for accuracy and would remove the demand for Wordpress to load the page every minute. We might consider this for our December reporting forward. Not sure yet.

Either way, we can guarantee our server was offline for at least 20 minutes on October 25th, and 30 minutes on October 30th. Either way, we are satisfied with the outage times in total for the month of October, 2007.

Overall, we grade HostGator an A- for server uptimes.