Hosting Service Agreement (SLA)
Freeportway is committed to providing services to its customers at a standard of excellence commensurate with the best practice in the industry.
Network uptime and server availability are of the highest importance. The following service levels are designed to assure Freeportway customers of
ultimate performance and maximal uptime.
Dedicated Hosting Server Hardware Replacement
Freeportway guarantees the functioning of all dedicated hardware and will replace any failed component at no cost to the customer within the appropriate
time frame and under 8 hours (1 business day).
This time frame is based on Freeportway's receipt of customer's support ticket concerning the hardware issue, Freeportway's identification of the
failed hardware ("Replacement Guarantee") and the scheduled maintenance window confirmed with the customer. "Dedicated Hardware" means the Processor(s), RAM, hard disk(s),
motherboard, NIC card and other related hardware listed in the Service. Replacement Guarantee does not include the time required to rebuild a RAID array or the
reload of the operating systems and applications or changes to dedicated hardware during maintenance, as defined below.
100% Network Uptime
Freeportway guarantees that the Freeportway network will be available 100% of the time, excluding Maintenance, as defined below. Customers are eligible for a
credit for Network Downtime for any breach of this guarantee, which can be verified by Freeportway's technical support team. "Network Downtime" is defined as an
inability to transmit and receive data caused by failure of network equipment managed and owned by Freeportway or its co-location, excluding Maintenance.
Remedies
In the event Freeportway fails to meet the Replacement Guarantee or customer experiences Infrastructure Downtime or Network Downtime as outlined herein,
provided Customer follows the procedures outlined herein, Freeportway will apply a credit ("Credit") to customer's account in an amount equal to five percent (5%)
of the Net MRC for the affected account for each half hour of downtime or fraction thereof. "Net MRC" means the monthly recurring charge for hosting service for the server
experiencing the issue excluding any add-on or optional services which are not included as part of the standard hosting plan but are included as
part of such customer's monthly recurring charge.
In order to claim Credits, Customer must open a Freeportway support ticket. All downtimes will be measured from the time the ticket is received and validated by
Freeportway to the time Freeportway, in its sole discretion is able to resolve the issue. Customer may not receive more than one (1) Credit per incident and in no event
will Customer receive greater than one month's Net MRC per incident under this SLA.
Customer must be a Freeportway customer in good standing to receive the credit. No Credit will be applied to accounts that are past-due or for accounts that are
cancelled before the conditions for payment of the Credit are met. Upon cancellation of the customer's account, any outstanding or previously accrued Credits will
be forfeited. Credits will be applied against purchases or renewals for which payment is due after the date the credit is applied.
Credits will not be applied against past due balances.
Exceptions
Customer shall not be entitled to any Credit hereunder if Infrastructure Downtime or Network Downtime is caused by:
(i) actions of the Customer or others authorized by Customer to use the Service under the Agreement;
(ii) the failure of power, facilities, equipment, systems or connections not provided by Freeportway or its co-location;
(iii) the failure of Third Party Service to Freeportway's network;
(iv) application, software, or operating system failure,
(v) the result of network maintenance activity,
(vi) Denial of Service attack, hacker activity, or other malicious event or code targeted against Freeportway or a Freeportway Customer, or
(vii) failure of any Network or Internet Infrastructure not owned or managed by Freeportway. Server Hardware Replacement guarantee does not include
time required to perform data restores and backups if applicable.
Maintenance
"Maintenance" means Scheduled Maintenance or Emergency Maintenance.
"Scheduled Maintenance" means any maintenance in the Freeportway data center (a) of which the customer is notified at least 24 hours in advance, or (b) that is performed
during Freeportway's standard maintenance windows.
"Emergency Maintenance" means any maintenance in the Freeportway data center that: (a) in Freeportway's sole discretion, is necessary to avoid an immediate threat
to the Freeportway data center or Customer's server and (b) of which Customer is notified. Any Emergency Maintenance in excess of 2 hours per event will count as
Network Downtime.
This SLA and all Freeportway Services are subject to the Freeportway Terms of Service.
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