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  Servers Australia 99.9 % Service Level Agreement

Coverage; Definitions

This Web Site Availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) applies to you ("customer") if you have ordered any services that have a SLA of 99.9% listed on the website www.serversaustralia.com.au

The SLA will only apply to these services (the "Services") and if your account is current (i.e., not past due) with Servers Australia:

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 per server, as measured by Servers Australia Pty. Ltd.

Service Level

  1. Goal:
    Servers Australia 's goal is to achieve 99.9% Web Site Availability for all Business account with the SLA option added, and all Premium reseller plans.
  2. Remedy:
    Subject to Sections 3 and 4 below, if the Web Site Availability of customer's Web site is less than 99.9%, Servers Australia 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

99.9-100%

0%

98%-99.8%

10%

95%-97.9%

25%

90%-94.9%

50%

89.9%-below

100%

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:

  1. Circumstances beyond Servers Australia'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;Failure of access circuits to the Servers Australia Network, unless such failure is caused solely by Servers Australia; Scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades; DNS issues outside the direct control of Servers Australia; Issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP customer access; False SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or errors of any Servers Australia measurement system; 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 Servers Australia's Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy; E-mail or webmail delivery and transmission; DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation;
  2. Outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to your account. Servers Australia is not responsible for browser or DNS caching that may make your site appear inaccessible when others can still access it. Servers Australia will guarantee only those areas considered under the control of Servers Australia: Servers Australia server links to the Internet, Servers Australia's routers, and Servers Australia's servers.

Credit Request and Payment Procedures

To receive a credit for a hosting account, the customer must make a request by sending an e-mail message to [email protected] . 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 customer's account number (per your Servers Australia invoice) and the dates and times of the unavailability of customer's Web site and must be received by Servers Australia within ten (10) business days after the customer's Web Site was not available. If the unavailability is confirmed by Servers Australia, credits will be applied within two billing cycles after Servers Australia'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 Servers Australia 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.