Last Updated: 10/10/2023

1. Definitions

1.1. “CloudLinux” means server-side software that monitors resources to ensure operation within set limits.

1.2. “Customer” means the person or entity who ordered services provided by Hostverse.

1.3. “Customer Service” means the relationship between Hostverse staff and the Customer, with the purpose of assisting the Customer with a question they have asked.

1.4. “eTicket” refers to a secure electronic message sent by the Customer to Hostverse via portal for assistance or for any questions they may have with any Service(s).

1.5. “Monthly Downtime” is calculated over a 31 day month.

1.6. “Service”, “Service(s)” or “Services” means any product(s) or service(s) the Customer has signed up to use. This can include, but is not limited to, the provisioning of space on one of our servers and a connection to and from the internet for web, email hosting and/or FTP services to function at the level specified in the chosen service level, domain name registration or transfer or renewal, SSL, VPS and SMS services. These product(s) and service(s) are identified in full within the “sign up” and “service provision” emails Hostverse has sent after the Customer requests the service. The specific details of the Services can be found by logging in to Hostverse or on our website.

1.7. “SLA” means Service Level Agreement (this agreement).

1.8. “SELECT” refers to web hosting services with the plan type SELECT in portal. This includes Bronze, Silver, Gold, Custom cPanel Hosting and WordPress Hosting.

1.9. “Website Availability” means the percentage of time in a calendar month that the Service was available for access by third parties by HTTP (port 80) and/or HTTPS (port 443), as determined by Hostverse’s internal and external monitoring.

1.12. “We”, “our” or “us” refers to Hostverse. 

1.13. “You” or “your” refers to the person or entity who ordered services provided by Hostverse

2. Our Goal

2.1. Hostverse goal is to achieve 100% website availability across all Service(s), and for all Customers.

2.2. Hostverse maintains a fully redundant network, utilities enterprise grade Dell hardware, RAID disk mirroring and a variety of other technical implementations to achieve uptime goals.

3. Remedy

3.1. Pursuant to Section 4 and 5 below, Hostverse will issue an account credit to the Customer’s portall account if the website availability of the Service is less than 100%, based on the following:

1. For active SELECT (including Bronze, Silver, Gold) web Hosting Service(s):

1. For active Fully Managed VPS Service(s):

1. Unless specified, all other Service(s) do not offer any credit percentage for website availability that is less than 100%.

3.2. The credit amount will be calculated on the monthly Service fee, minus any discounts, addons or licences which have been applied.

3.3. The Customer will be notified by Hostverse by email in the event of a credit being available. 

4. Exceptions

4.1. The Customer will not be entitled to any remedy under this SLA if the website availability is reduced or impaired due to any exception named in this section of the agreement.

4.2. Circumstances beyond Hostverse reasonable control, including but not limited to, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, armed conflict, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labour disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of or interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services, Denial of Service attacks, or failure of third party software (including but not limited to cPanel, Installatron, Acronis, RVSiteBuilder, VIPControl, eCommerce software, payment gateways, statistics or free scripts).

4.3. Scheduled maintenance or upgrades, including emergency maintenance or upgrades pursuant to Section 5 of this agreement.

4.4. DNS propagation issues outside the direct control of Hostverse

4.5. Issues with FTP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, SSH, cPanel or Webmail.

4.6. SLA breaches reported by third party monitoring services belonging to or engaged by the Customer.

4.7. Customer’s acts or omissions (or acts or omissions of others engaged or authorised by customer), including but not limited to, custom scripting or coding (CGI, Perl, HTML, PHP, etc), any negligence, wilful misconduct, or use of the Service in breach of Hostverse’s Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy.

4.8. CloudLinux making the Service unavailable due to excessive resource consumption.

4.9. Email or webmail delivery and transmission.

4.10. Outages elsewhere on the Internet, DNS caching, browser caching, or any other reason that hinders access to the Service while others can still access it.

5. Maintenance

5.1. Hostverse will perform scheduled maintenance at a time which is deemed suitable by Hostverse, and should it require any Service(s) to be offline for greater than thirty (30) minutes, Hostverse will post details of the scheduled maintenance at least two (2) days prior. These periods are not included in the website availability calculations.

5.2. Unscheduled maintenance will be performed as required by Hostverse , and should any Service(s) be offline for greater than thirty (30) minutes,Hostversewill post details of the maintenance and any updates until it has been completed. These periods are not included in the website availability calculations.

6. Acceptance

6.1. The Customer signified acceptance of this Service Level Agreement, as well as our Terms of Service, Customer Service Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, Privacy Policy and any applicable Registrant Agreement, when they submitted their order to Hostverse for Services, and that order was accepted.

7. Changes

7.1. Hostverse may amend our Service Level Agreement at any time. Changes to this agreement will become effective upon their publication to our website.

7.2. Continued use of the Service(s) constitutes acceptance of the amended terms. If you do not wish to accept the amended terms, you may request cancellation of your Services) in-line with our cancellation policy found within our Terms of Service.

If you have any questions about this agreement please contact our Customer Care team via email at info@hostverse.au.