Hostrizon Group ("Hostrizon") provide a Service Level Agreement to
customers who have purchased specific services where this agreement is
in place.
1. DEFINITIONS
- “Customer” means the person or entity who ordered our services.
- “Service(s)” means any DirectAdmin web hosting plan on our site that
is marked as Active in the Hostrizon billing system.
- “SLA” means Service Level Agreement (this agreement).
- “Web Site Availability" means the percentage of time in a calendar
month that the Service was available for access by third parties by
HTTP (port 80) and/or HTTPS (port 443), as determined by the Hostrizon
internal and external monitoring.
- “Client Area” refers to the Hostrizon customer account, billing and
management portal, available online at https://my.hostrizon.com/
- "Monthly Downtime" is calculated over a 31 day month.
2. ACCEPTANCE
The Customer signified acceptance of this Service Level Agreement when
they submitted their order to Hostrizon for Services, and that order was
approved and an activation email sent to the customer.
3. OUR GOAL
Our goal is to achieve 100% Availability for all customers. Our
published service level agreement is 99.9%.
4. REMEDY
Subject to sections 5 and 6 below, Hostrizon will issue an account
credit to the customer if the website availability is less then 99.9%
based on the following table:
Web Site or Server 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% |
Hostrizon will issue a credit to customer in accordance with the above
schedule, with the credit being calculated on the basis of the monthly
service charge for the affected account.
5. EXCEPTIONS
Customer shall not receive any credits under this SLA in connection with
any failure or deficiency of Web Site or Server Availability caused by
or associated with:
- Circumstances beyond Hostrizon's reasonable control, including,
without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection,
sabotage, armed conflict, embargo, fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane
or other acts of God, 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;
- CloudLinux making the Service unavailable due to excessive resource
consumption;
- Failure of access circuits to the Hostrizon Network, unless such
failure is caused solely by Hostrizon;
- Scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades;
- DNS issues outside the direct control of Hostrizon;
- Issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP customer access;
- False SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or errors of any
Hostrizon 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, PHP, etc), any negligence,
willful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of Hostrizon'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.
Hostrizon is not responsible for browser or DNS caching that may make
your site appear inaccessible when others can still access it.
Hostrizon will guarantee only those areas considered under the control
of Hostrizon: Hostrizon server links to the Internet, routers, and our
servers.
6. CREDIT REQUEST AND PAYMENT PROCEDURES
- To receive a credit for a web hosting account, VPS or dedicated
server, the customer must make a request therefore by submitting a
credit request via a support ticket in the Hostrizon Client Area at
https://my.hostrizon.com/.
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 Hostrizon within seven (7) business days after the
customer's web site was not available. If the unavailability is
confirmed by Hostrizon, credits will be applied within two billing
cycles after Hostrizon 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 Hostrizon and are customer's sole
and exclusive remedy with respect to any failure or deficiency in the
web site availability.
- From time to time, Hostrizon may be required to perform emergency
server maintenance without prior notification to the Customer in order
to protect the integrity of the service, apply critical updates, or
restart services due to configuration failure. These periods are not
included in the web site availability calculations.