Uptime does not equal 'available time'

Most Web hosting companies claim to provide 99.9% uptime. This is a good thing, and means that the server is only likely to be inactive (down) for roughly 9 hours per year. This statistic puts at ease the minds of countless thousands of people.

99.9% uptime does not guarantee that your Website will be available 99.9% of the time. Most Websites hosted via cheap packages suffer problems quite frequently, adding up to several days of inaccessibility per year, even though the servers remain up 99.9% of the time.

When people access a Website for the first time and it takes ages to display information, or doesn't display anything, people will become frustrated and leave - most never to return.

While buying cheap hosting seems to save money, it can also end up losing money. If potential customers are going elsewhere because your Website is not available, you are likely to lose far more than what you could have spent on better hosting.