Hosting Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Vivio Technologies endeavors to have the content of your website available and to meet
certain guarantees posted at http://www.viviotech.net/hosting_sla.cfm. The Vivio
Technologies Service Level Agreement ("SLA") outlines those agreements and guarantees.
Vivio Technologies retains sole discretionary power when determining if a
guarantee has not been met.
99% Uptime Guarantee
Coverage
This 99% uptime guarantee applies to any Vivio Technologies Hosting Client in good financial
standing with Vivio Technologies at the time of a service outage.
Specifications
Vivio Technologies endeavors to have our network available for http access
by any party in the world 99% of the time. Network downtime (unavailability) is defined as
100% packet loss from Vivio Technologies to its backbone providers. Downtime is measured past 10 minutes
after notification of network failure via Vivio Technologies'' online ticketing system. If the ticketing
system itself is unreachable, the ticket must be started by calling the Vivio Technologies NOC, or emergency
paging services. Vivio Technologies' administrators will determine the end of the downtime by a trace-route
to the customer's machine from outside the Vivio Technologies network.
Credit
In the event that our network is not available for 99%, Vivio Technologies will credit that month's
service fee. For pre-paid accounts, such credit shall be provided in the form of an additional month being
added on to the amount of time that has been pre-paid.
Restrictions
Customer shall not receive any credits under this SLA in connection with any failure or deficiency of
network availability caused by or associated with:
- circumstances beyond Vivio Technologies 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 bandwidth providers to the Vivio Technologies Network, unless such failure is caused solely by
Vivio Technologies;
- scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades;
- DNS issues outside the direct control of Vivio Technologies;
- issues with FTP. POP, IMAP, or SMTP customer access;
- false SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or errors of any Vivio Technologies 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 Vivio Technologies 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. Vivio Technologies is not responsible
for browser or DNS caching that may make your site appear inaccessible when others can still access it.
Vivio Technologies will guarantee only those areas considered under the control of Vivio Technologies:
Vivio Technologies server links to the Internet, Vivio Technologies routers, and Vivio Technologies servers.