4.2. Service Level Agreement.
Our service level agreement (SLA) is a contract. It explains our responsibility to you as a hosting provider, and the credit that you are entitled to if your server ever goes offline.
All SLA credit requests must be made within 7 days of the incident, these requests can be processed by opening a Support Ticket.
Uplink / Control Panel
- Running Process - This includes the usability of your server, and if it can be started.
- Uplink - This includes the connectivity from your server to the outside internet.
- Control Panels - This DOES includes the accessibility of the Game control panel, VPS control panels and cPanel. This does NOT include the functionality of specific features within the control panels.
Uptime |
Credit |
99.9% to 100% |
No Credit |
99.0% to 99.89% |
10% of Month |
98.0% to 98.99% |
25% of Month |
97.0% to 97.99% |
50% of Month |
Less than 97% |
100% (Free Month) |
Hardware
- Faulty Hardware Upgrades - This includes any hardware, either on your server, or node that your server is located on, that fails partially or completely.
Please note that this 12 hour Hardware SLA is valid only after the problem has been confirmed to be faulty hardware.
Downtime |
Credit |
12 Hours or Less |
No Credit |
12 to 24 Hours |
25% of Month |
24 to 48 Hours |
50% of Month |
Over 48 Hours |
100% (Free Month) |
4.3 SLA Terms. This Agreement is subject to the following terms:
(a) Account Credit. We add to your Account Credit Balance for use in future billing cycles only. SLA credits are non-transferable in any way. SLA credits may not be exchanged for currency of any kind.
(b) Request via Support Ticket. All SLA claims must be made via Support Ticket.
(c) All SLA claims must be made within 7 days of the incident. SLA credits may take up to 24 hours to authorize and post to your account.
(d) SLA credits may not exceed the full monthly amount of the server they are being applied to.
(e) Valid for Active Service. We only give credit for services that are being renewed. If you are late on payment, you will not be eligible for SLA credit.
(f) Must be following AUP/ToS. If any of your servers are disconnected due to violation of the AUP or the rest of these terms, you will not be eligible for SLA credit.
(g) Must be an authorized user on the account. All other unauthorized claims will be denied.
(h) SLA credits may not be stacked, i.e. claiming SLA credit on both Uplink Downtime, as well as Panel Downtime during the same incident.
(i) Does not apply to lag.
(j) Does not apply to corrupted Game server. Your server instances must not be in a crashed state because of corrupted world files.
(k) Not valid for Downtime from Support. Minecraft/Game server configuration changes, server jar change, backup restores, file transfers or OS reinstalls do not qualify in any way for an SLA credit.
(l) Not valid for activation delays. If the uplink was never reachable after the first service activation, it will not be eligible for SLA credit.
(m) Not valid for downtime from Scheduled Maintenance.
(n) Not valid for node transfers. This includes transfers that are requested, or forced.
(o) Not valid for Trial or Free Servers.
(p) Not valid for pending plan upgrades.
(q) 12 hours minimum for Hardware issues. Hardware SLA qualifies for SLA credits only when at least 12 hours have passed. Until we confirm or deny hardware failure, the SLA is inactive.
(r) Not valid for datacenter disasters. Acts of God, weather/natural disaster, or any other disaster affecting the datacenter is not eligible for SLA credit.
(s) This SLA is subject to change without notice.