RealMetrics — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:38:31 +0000

We're looking for a way to differentiate between hosts that actually schedule maintenance downtime, and those that just have downtime. Any ideas on how we could do that other than having two separate metrics?

andy206uk — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:55:19 +0000

Good point... If you take into account the fact that people use the internet 24/7 all over the world, there's probably no such thing as general peak/off-peak times except for those specific to each individual website.

Busy — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:30:22 +0000

Also depends on what part of the world your hosts are in. me for example am up to 18 hours ahead of USA and about 12 from UK.
All my hosts have been US based and they do backups etc in their off peak, which is my peak time, has it's draw backs on load time etc

andy206uk — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:18:25 +0000

Weekends are definitely as important as weekdays when it comes to web traffic. I do generally see a little dip in traffic at the weekend but that's likely because some people don't have net access at home and only access the net from the office.

RealMetrics — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:07:00 +0000

Thanks Andyk,

What do you think about weekends versus weekdays? Should weekends be off-peak hours, or should they be treated just like weekdays?

andy206uk — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:52:12 +0000

Not all business work 9-5 so I wouldn't use that.

Personally I think something like 8am - 10pm would be more relevant for hosting as those are more like peak internet usage hours (well.. according to the stats on most of my websites anyway...)