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How to Read a Provider's Incident History
Learn to read a hosting provider's public incident history, including affected services, timestamps and updates, before choosing a provider.
About this training
Every hosting company's sales page says reliable. Almost none of them show you their bad days. A public incident history does - and learning to read one is the cheapest due diligence available before you sign anything.
This uses ALCO's own, including an outage that is not a good look for us, because that is exactly the point. What a real entry contains, how to read a timeline from the bottom up, and what an empty or permanently green status page actually tells you.
Then go and look at your current provider's.