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 Hostalgia (the "Services") and your account
is current (i.e., not past due) with Hostalgia: Shared
Web Hosting Plans (BizCard, SmallBiz, BizPro, and BizCorp).
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 Hostalgia.
2. Service Level
a. Goal: Hostalgia'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%, Hostalgia 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:
| Credit
offered against Web site Availability |
 |
| Web site Availability (%) |
Service Rebate (%) |
 |
| 99.9 to 100% |
0% |
 |
| 96% to 99.8% |
10% |
 |
| 92% to 95.9% |
25% |
 |
| 89% to 91.9% |
50% |
 |
| 88.9% and 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:
- circumstances beyond Hostalgia'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 Hostalgia's servers, unless such failure is caused
solely by Hostalgia;
- scheduled maintenance and emergency
maintenance and upgrades;
- DNS issues outside the direct
control of Hostalgia;
- issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or
SMTP customer access;
- false SLA breaches reported as
a result of outages or errors of any Hostalgia 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 Hostalgia's Terms
and Conditions and Acceptable
Use Policy;
- e-mail or webmail delivery and
transmission;
- DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation.
- outages elsewhere on the Internet
that hinder access to your account. Hostalgia is not
responsible for browser or DNS caching that may make
your site appear inaccessible when others can still
access it. Hostalgia will guarantee only those areas
considered under the control of Hostalgia: Hostalgia's
server links to the Internet, Hostalgia's routers,
and Hostalgia's servers.
4. Credit Request and Payment Procedures
To receive a credit, the customer must make a request
therefore by sending an e-mail message to creditrequest@hostalgia.com
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 Hostalgia within ten
(10) business days after the customer's Web Site was
not available. If the unavailability is confirmed by
Hostalgia, credits will be applied within two billing
cycles after Hostalgia'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 Hostalgia 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. |