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The Globalink Service Level Agreement (SLA)
covers certain aspects of our Signature Hosting, FreeBSD
and Solaris Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting accounts.
Our goal is to achieve 100% Web site availability for all
customers. The SLA serves to provide you confidence and
assurance that we stand behind our hosting accounts.
In the event that one of your Signature or VPS hosting
accounts falls below 99.9% Web site availability you may
request a credit per the terms and conditions of the SLA.
Requests for credits must be received by Globalink
within ten (10) days after the incident for which the
review is being requested. If the unavailability is
confirmed by Globalink, a credit will be applied within
two (2) weeks. Credits are not refundable and can only be
used for current or future charges.
Complete terms and conditions of SLA can be found
below.
1. Coverage; Definitions
This Web Site Availability Service Level Agreement (SLA)
applies to you ("customer") if you have ordered any of the
following Unix hosting account services from Globalink
(the "Services") and your account is current (i.e., not
past due) with Globalink: Shared Web Hosting Plans
(Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, High Volume), E-Commerce
Plans (Cyberstand, e-Vendor or Marketplace), Signature
Hosting or Virtual Private Servers (FreeDSD or Solaris).
As used herein, the term "Web Site Availability" means the
percentage of a particular month (based on 24-hour days
for the number of days in the subject month) that the
content of customer's Web site is available for access by
third parties via HTTP and HTTPS, as measured by
Globalink.
2. Service Level
Goal:
Globalink's goal is to achieve 100% Web Site
Availability for all customers.
Remedy:
Subject to Sections 3 and 4 below, if the Web Site
Availability of customer's Web site is less than 100%,
Globalink will issue a credit to customer in accordance
with the following schedule, with the credit being
calculated on the basis of the monthly service charge for
the affected Services:
Web Site Availability Credit Percentage
99.9 to 100% 0%
98% to 99.8% 10%
95% to 97.9% 25%
90% to 94.9% 50%
89.9% or below 100%
3. Exceptions
Customer shall not receive any credits under this SLA
in connection with any failure or deficiency of Web Site
Availability caused by or associated with:
circumstances beyond Globalink's 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 Globalink Network,
unless such failure is caused solely by Globalink;
scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and
upgrades;
DNS issues outside the direct control of Globalink;
issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP customer access;
false SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or
errors of any Globalink measurement system;
customer's acts or omissions (or acts or omissions of
others engaged or authorized by customer), 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 Globalink's Terms and
Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy;
e-mail or webmail delivery and transmission;
DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation.
outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to
your account. Globalink is not responsible for browser or
DNS caching that may make your site appear inaccessible
when others can still access it. Globalink will guarantee
only those areas considered under the control of
Globalink:Globalink server links to the Internet,
Globalink's routers, and Globalink's servers.
4. Credit Request and Payment Procedures
Each request in connection with this SLA must include
the dates and times of the unavailability of customer's
Web site and must be received by Globalink within ten (10)
business days after the customer's Web Site was not
available. If the unavailability is confirmed by
Globalink, credits will be applied within two billing
cycles after Globalink's receipt of the customer's credit
request. Credits are not refundable and can be used only
towards future billing charges.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the
total amount credited to customer in a particular month
under this SLA shall not exceed the total hosting fee paid
by customer for such month for the affected Services.
Credits are exclusive of any applicable taxes charged
to customer or collected by Globalink and are customer's
sole and exclusive remedy with respect to any failure or
deficiency in the Web Site Availability of customer's Web
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