As more and more business look to expand both their customer base and revenue line by driving the e-commerce based aspect of their business.The ability for that site to be running 24/7 , 365 , becomes mission critical. Downtime results in lost revenue and lost confidence with your customers.

Published Costs of website downtime include the following:

Downtime is costing the major internet e-commerce based websites $8,000 per
hour – Eric Jackson. “Cost of losing information. A framework for information management
planning” Forrester Research, September 2005

Downtime costs $1,400 per minute on average – Shawn Barker. “Justifying an Active directory disaster recovery plan” (oracle survey/IDC study) October 2007

The best way for your company to avoid being included in those statistics, is to carefully choose and investigate your choice of infrastructure provider. One that could provide you with an infrastructure without a single point of failure , one that provides back-ups should human error compromise your data , one that can cope with hardware failure without any downtime.This is were cloud hosting comes into play, it allows for individuals and SME’s to now avail of that redundancy and reliability but for the same costs of a traditional shared hosting plan.

There is no longer a viable excuse not to have mission critical and revenue generating websites on the best hardware available today, it all depends on how valuable you see your website and online data as being.

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