Service Level Agreement
Last Updated: 04/09/2023 1. Introduction
This Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) outlines the support of the
Cloudexter’s Services and products. The remedies set out in this SLA are
your (“Client”) sole and exclusive remedy for issues covered by the SLA.
If there is a conflict between this SLA and the Terms of Service, the
Terms of Service shall control.
2. Definitions
- Services: Means the portions of the Services the Client
subscribes to.
- Monthly Period: Means the billing period within a calendar
month.
- Downtime: Means any period of time in which the Services
are unavailable to the Client during any Monthly Period, calculated separately
for each Service to which a Client is subscribed.
- Monthly Subscription Value: The actual amount invoiced
during the Monthly Period for each distinct Service or if it is an annual
subscription the fee paid for the Service divided by 12. If you switch
hosting plans during the Monthly Period, your Monthly Subscription Value
shall be prorated based on the amount of time spent on each plan during
the Monthly Period. The Monthly Subscription Value excludes any other
fee or amount, such as, but not limited to, paid add-ons, overages, build
time, bandwidth, and migration fees.
- Uptime Guarantee: Means the Services will be available
at least 99.9% of the time during each Monthly Billing Period.
- SLA Credit: Means the credit as described in this SLA
which is applied to subsequent invoices.
3. How SLA Credits will be Calculated
3.1 If we fail to meet the Uptime Guarantee, upon request you will
receive SLA Credits as described below:
3.1.1 For all of our hosting services, you will receive SLA Credits equal
to five percent (5%) of your Monthly Subscription Value for each full hour
(120 minutes) of Downtime. Downtime shall be calculated based on our monitoring.
For example purposes only:
Minutes in Downtime | Credit Percentage |
0-59 minutes | 0% Credit |
120-140 minutes | 5% of Monthly Subscription Amount |
140-200 minutes | 10% of Monthly Subscription Amount |
SLA Credits will not exceed the Monthly Subscription Value for the month
in which we failed to meet our Uptime Guarantee.
4. How You Will Receive SLA Credits
To claim an SLA Credit under this SLA, Customer shall send Cloudexter a
notice, via email addressed to
support@cloudexter.com,
containing the following details:
- SLA Service(s) that form the basis for the claim;
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Billing information, including company name, billing address, billing
contact and billing contact phone number;
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Downtime information with dates and time periods for each instance of
downtime during the relevant period by applicable SLA Service; and
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An explanation of the claim, including any relevant calculations.
4.1 Claims must be submitted within 30 calendar days after the incident.
4.2 All claims will be verified against Cloudexter ‘s system records.
Should Cloudexter dispute any period of unavailability alleged by
Customer, Cloudexter will provide to Customer a record of the SLA
Service availability for the applicable period. Cloudexter will provide
such records only in response to claims made by Customer in good faith.
Cloudexter will only dispute any claims in good faith and shall
cooperate with Customer to resolve any dispute related to any such
claims disputed by Cloudexter.
4.3 Accounts must not be past due when requesting an SLA credit. Account
credits are issued to your account to be used for future service and
will be automatically applied to newly created invoices.
5. When You Will Not Receive SLA Credits
Cloudexter is not responsible for any outage to the extent resulting
from the following, which would all therefore not be included in the
calculation of the Uptime Guarantee:
- Periods of Scheduled Downtime.
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Emergency maintenance that is necessary to prevent imminent harm to
the Service.
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Any unavailability caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable
control, including, for example, an act of God, act of government,
flood, fire, earthquake, civil unrest, act of terror, strike or other
labor problem (other than one involving our employees).
- Internet service provider failure or delay.
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Third-party Services, Client application, equipment, software or other
technology, or Client or its user’s use of the Service, in violation
of the Agreement or not in accordance with the documentation.
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Outages due to instability or unavailability of Client-provided
infrastructure.
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Outages due to changes in Client-owned infrastructure that have a
direct impact on Cloudexter services.
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Client breach of the Terms of Service or any other policies, terms, or
agreements applicable to Client.
Please note that Cloudexter is dependent on third-party providers such
as Cloudflare and is not responsible for any issues resulting from those
providers.