Sprocket Networks Service Levels

With our team of highly skilled Systems Administrators monitoring and responding to issues 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, Sprocket Networks offers Service Level Agreements (SLA) guaranteeing the reliability and performance of our network and hosting services.

Network SLA-
(Covers all colocation, dedicated server, and shared hosting clients)

• 100% network uptime
• One day credit for each hour of network downtime
• <1% packet loss from us to our Tier 1 backbone bandwidth providers
• One day credit for each 1% of packet loss
• <3 ms latency from us to our Tier 1 backbone bandwidth providers
• One day credit for each additional 3 ms of latency

Power SLA-
(Covers all colocation, dedicated server, and shared hosting clients)

• 100% power uptime via utility feeds, UPS, and/or generator
• One day credit for each hour of power downtime
• Client provided hardware is not covered.

Dedicated Server specific SLA-
(Covers only Dedicated Server clients)

• 100% hardware uptime
• Replacement of malfunctioning components within less than two hours.
• One day credit for each additional two hours taken with hardware replacement.
• SLA does not include operating system or application installation if needed.

Colocation specific SLA-
(Covers only Colocation clients)

• See Power and Network SLA’s above

Shared Hosting specific SLA-
(Covers only Shared Hosting clients)

• 100% server uptime.
• Replacement of malfunctioning components within less than two hours.
• One day credit for each additional two hours taken with hardware replacement.
• SLA does not include operating system and/or data restoration from backup.

Maintenance Events-
(Covers all colocation, dedicated server, and shared hosting clients)

General Maintenance shall mean any maintenance

• Of which Client is notified 48 hours in advance.

• That is performed during a standard maintenance window from 11 PM to 4 AM local time of the data center.

Notice of Scheduled Maintenance will be provided to Client’s designated point of contact by email. Emergency Maintenance may have less than a 24-hour notification period. Emergency maintenance may be performed at any time, with or without notice as deemed necessary by Sprocket Networks.

Exceptions-
Client shall not receive any credits under this SLA in connection with any failure or deficiency caused by or associated with:

• Circumstances beyond Sprocket Networks' 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 access circuits to the Sprocket Networks Network, unless such failure is caused solely by Sprocket Networks;
• Scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades;
• DNS issues outside the direct control of Sprocket Networks;
• Issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP client access;
• False SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or errors of any Sprocket Networks measurement system;
• Client's acts or omissions (or acts or omissions of others engaged or authorized by client), including, without limitation, custom scripting or coding (e.g., CGI, Perl, HTML, ASP, etc), any negligence, willful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of Sprocket Networks' Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy;
• E-mail delivery and transmission;
• Reasons of Force Majeure;
• DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation.
• Outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder service.(ie DNS caching that may make a web site appear inaccessible when others can still access it)

Credit Terms-
Creditable outages do not include unavailability resulting from

• Any Client provided supplies, equipment, applications, or software.
• Acts or omissions of Client.
• Any outside use or user of the service authorized by a Client.

General-
Client must open a trouble ticket with within three days of the outage to properly document any outage and receive credit.

• Up to 100% of applicable fees on client's monthly bill may be credited due to failure to provide service per the terms of the SLA.
• Measurement of all data is per a 30 consecutive day period

This SLA is subject to change at the sole discretion of Sprocket Networks, without notice to Client. The most recent revision of this document will be posted to this web site. All changes made to the SLA will be effective five (5) days after the first publishing date.

This SLA in no way construes the SN will guarantee performance against failures of application specific failures, such as web server software, operating system software, failing hardware, web site application features, database performance or related components. It will be at Sprocket Networks' sole discretion to determine fault and identify failure to perform under the obligations of this SLA.