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Creative Generation
Communications, Inc.
Service Level Agreements (SLA)
Creative Generation provides Internet World Wide Web page
hosting, Marketing, and Development. Creative Generation endeavors
to have the content of your Web site available and to meet
certain guarantees. This Service Level Agreement ("SLA")
outlines those agreements and guarantees. Creative Generation
retains sole discretionary power when determining if a guarantee
has not been met.
99.9% Uptime Guarantee
(1.) Coverage
This 99.9% uptime guarantee applies to any Creative Generation
client in good financial standing with Creative Generation
at the time of a service outage.
(2.) Service Level Agreement & Specifications
Creative Generation endeavors to have the content of your
web site available for http access by any party in the world
99.9% of the time. Network downtime (unavailability) is defined
as 100% packet loss from Creative Generation to its backbone
providers. Downtime is measured past 10 minutes after notification
of network failure via Creative Generation's online ticketing
system. If the ticketing system itself is unreachable, the
ticket must be started by calling the Creative Generation
NOC. Creative Generation's administrators will determine the
end of the downtime by a trace-route to the customer's machine
from outside the Creative Generation network.
(3.) Credits
a. Shared Hosting - In the event that your web site is not
available for more than 99.9%, Creative Generation will credit
the following month's service fee as follows. For any shared
hosting client, such credit shall be retroactive and shall
be as calculated below and as measured 24 hours a day in a
calendar month, with the maximum credit not to exceed fifty
(50) percent of the monthly service charge for the affected
month.
Monthly Uptime - - - - -Credit
95% to 99.8% - - - - - - 10%
90% to 94.9% - - - - - - 20%
89.9% or below- - - - - - 50%
b. Managed Dedicated Servers - For managed dedicated server
customers if the uptime is between 98.9% and 99.9% for any
particular month the credit shall be retroactive and equivalent
to the difference between the guaranteed level of availability
of the customer's services during the month and the calculated
actual level of availability of the customer's services, multiplied
by the actual charges incurred by the customer for the services
during that month period. In addition, for managed dedicated
server, customers may be entitled to additional credits as
calculated below and as measured 24-hours a day in a calendar
month, with the maximum credit not to exceed twenty-five percent
(25%) of the monthly service charge for the affected month.
Minutes of continuous downtime - - - - Credit
60 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10%
5+ 60 minute intervals- - - - - - - - - - - 25%
In order for you to receive a credit on your account, you
must request such credit within seven (7) days after you experienced
the down time. You must request credit by sending an electronic
mail message to refunds@Creative Generation.com. For security,
the body of this message must contain your account number,
the dates and times of the unavailability of your website,
and such other customer identification requested by Creative
Generation. Credits will usually be applied within sixty (60)
days of your credit request. Credit to your account shall
be your sole and exclusive remedy in the event of an outage.
(4.) Restrictions
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:
a. circumstances beyond Creative Generation'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;
b. failure of access circuits to the Creative Generation
Network, unless such
failure is caused solely by Creative Generation;
c. scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades;
d. DNS issues outside the direct control of Creative Generation;
e. issues with FTP. POP, IMAP, or SMTP customer access;
f. false SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or
errors of
any Creative Generation measurement system;
g. 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 Creative
Generation's Terms and
Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy;
h. e-mail or webmail delivery and transmission;
i. DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation.
j. outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to
your
account. Creative Generation is not responsible for browser
or DNS caching that may
make your site appear inaccessible when others can still access
it. Creative Generation
will guarantee only those areas considered under the control
of Creative Generation:
Creative Generation server links to the Internet, Creative
Generation's routers, and Creative Generation's
servers.
Latency Guarantee
Creative Generation's goal is to keep Average Round-Trip
Latency on the Creative Generation Network to 85 milliseconds
or less. "Average Round-Trip Latency", with respect
to a given month, means the average time required for round-trip
packet transfers between Selected POPs on the Creative Generation
Network during such month, as measured by Creative Generation.
If Average Round-Trip Latency on the Creative Generation Network
for a calendar month exceeds 85 milliseconds, then upon Customer's
request (in accordance with the procedure set forth below),
Creative Generation will issue a credit to Customer equal
to and not to exceed in any calendar month one day's worth
of the Access Fee (as defined below) paid by Customer for
such month.
Packet Loss Guarantee
Creative Generation's goal is to keep Average Packet Loss
on the Creative Generation Network to 1% or less. "Average
Packet Loss", with respect to a given month, means the
average percentage of IP packets transmitted on the Creative
Generation Network during such month that are not successfully
delivered, as measured by Creative Generation. If Average
Packet Loss exceeds 1% during a calendar month, then upon
Customer's request (in accordance with the procedure set forth
below), Creative Generation will issue a credit to Customer
equal to and not to exceed in any calendar month one day's
worth of the Access Fee (as defined below) paid by Customer
for such month.
The terms of this SLA relating to Average Round-Trip Latency
and Average Packet Loss will take effect the first full calendar
month after Customer's first use of the Creative Generation
Network.
Access Fee Definitions
For dedicated/colocation/managed hosting Customers, the Access
Fee consists solely of the base monthly fee paid by Customer
for standard server packages, including the use of the server,
the use of electricity to the extent provided to the Customer
without additional charge, and up to the amount of data transfer
allowed each month without additional charge. The Access Fee
for purposes of the SLA credit excludes all other fees which
might be charged to the Customer, including, without limitation,
charges relating to managed services, incremental bandwidth
usage and fees for electricity, extra IP addresses, RAM, or
hard drives beyond that which is available without additional
charge under Creative Generation's standard rates. This list
of potentially excluded fees is offered solely for purposes
of illustration and not by way of limitation.
The Access Fee for all other Customers is the base monthly
access fee paid by Customer for use of the applicable OMEGABYTE.NETWORKS
service at the amount of data transfer allowed each month
without additional charge, excluding set-up fees, fees for
additional services, and for server and other types of options.
Such excluded fees will vary by the type of applicable service,
and could consist of fees for local loop, extra and/or burstable
bandwidth, add-on components, extra IP addresses, hourly support
charges, electricity when an additional fee is charge for
such an item, and managed services. This list of potentially
excluded fees is offered solely for purposes of illustration
and not by way of limitation.
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