Service Level Agreement
Last Updated (Thursday, 20 November 2008 11:53) Written by Administrator Thursday, 20 November 2008 11:49
myshophosting knows that you cannot afford to be let down by your Internet Hosting Provider. That is why myshophosting makes commitments to its customers in the form of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that provides certain rights and remedies regarding the availability and performance of myshophosting's network.
1. Coverage; Definitions
This Web Site Availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) applies to you ("customer") if you have ordered any of the following Linux hosting account services from myshophosting (the "Services") and your account is current (i.e., not past due) with myshophosting: Web Hosting Plans (Small, Medium, Large, XLarge, XXLarge, Monster Plan). As used herein, the term "Web Site Availability" means the percentage of a particular month (based on 24-hour days for the number of days in the subject month) that the content of customer's Web site is available for access by third parties via HTTP and HTTPS, as measured by myshophosting.
2. Service Level
a) Goal:
myshophosting's goal is to achieve 100% Web Site Availability for all customers.b) Remedy:
Subject to Sections 3 and 4 below, if the Web Site Availability of customer's Web site is less than 100%, myshophosting will issue a credit to customer in accordance with the following schedule, with the credit being calculated on the basis of the monthly service charge for the affected Services:
Web Site Availability Credit Percentage 99.9 to 100% 0% 98% to 99.8% 10% 95% to 97.9% 25% 90% to 94.9% 50% 89.9% or below 100%
3. Exceptions
Customer shall not receive any credits under this
SLA in connection with any failure or deficiency of Web Site
Availability caused by or associated with:
a) circumstances beyond myshophosting's reasonable control,
including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war,
insurrection, sabotage, armed conflict, embargo, fire, flood, strike
or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in
transportation, unavailability of or interruption or delay in
telecommunications or third party services, virus attacks or
hackers, failure of third party software (including, without
limitation, ecommerce software, payment gateways, chat, statistics
or free scripts) or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or
power used in or equipment needed for provision of this SLA;
b) failure of access circuits to the myshophosting Network, unless
such failure is caused solely by myshophosting;
c) scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades;
d) DNS issues outside the direct control of myshophosting;
e) issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP customer access;
f) false SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or errors of
any myshophosting measurement system;
g) customer's acts or omissions (or acts or omissions of others
engaged or authorized by customer), including, without limitation,
custom scripting or coding (e.g., CGI, Perl, HTML, ASP, etc), any
negligence, willful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of
myshophosting's Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy;
h) e-mail or webmail delivery and transmission;
i) DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation.
j) outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to your
account. myshophosting is not responsible for browser or DNS caching
that may make your site appear inaccessible when others can still
access it. myshophosting will guarantee only those areas considered
under the control of myshophosting: myshophosting server links to
the Internet, myshophosting's routers, and myshophosting's servers.
4. Credit Request and Payment Procedures
To receive a credit for a hosting account, the
customer must make a request therefore by sending an e-mail message
to
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. The e-mail message MUST include the
domain name of the customer's account in the "Subject" line. Each
request in connection with this SLA must include the dates and times
of the unavailability of customer's Web site and must be received by
myshophosting within ten (10) business days after the customer's Web
Site was not available. If the unavailability is confirmed by
myshophosting, credits will be applied within two billing cycles
after myshophosting's receipt of the customer's credit request.
Credits are not refundable and can be used only towards future
billing charges.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the total amount
credited to customer in a particular month under this SLA shall not
exceed the total hosting fee paid by customer for such month for the
affected Services. Credits are exclusive of any applicable taxes
charged to customer or collected by myshophosting and are customer's
sole and exclusive remedy with respect to any failure or deficiency
in the Web Site Availability of customer's Web site.
Note: Credits are not refundable and can be used only towards future
billing charges.


