Service Level Agreement For Blinkcore Products and Services

This Service Level Agreement applies to you ("Customer") if you have ordered any cloud hosting or dedicated server service from Blinkcore and your account is current.  The term "Availability" means the percentage of a particular month (based on 24-hour days for the number of days in the subject month) that the Customer's Services are available for access from the Internet as measured by Blinkcore.

Goal

The goal of Blinkcore is to achieve 100% availability, complete service and satisfaction for all customers at all times.

Services guaranteed

Guaranteed crystal clear networks > 99.999% of IP packets will be within 2ms of the average to any of our closest backbone routers.

Blinkcore will repair or remove and install reasonably comparable replacement parts if it determines, in its own discretion, that the hardware is defective.

Emergency Case - 30 minutes (Server Down, Packet Loss, Routing Issue)

Remedy

If the Availability of Customer's Services is less than 100%, Blinkcore 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:

Availability

Credit

99.999 to 100%

0%

99.8 to 99.999%

10%

98% to 99.8%

20%

95% to 97.9%

25%

90% to 94.9%

50%

89.9% or below

100%

Exceptions:

Customer shall not receive any credits under this SLA in connection with any failure or deficiency of Availability caused by or associated with:


Credit Request Procedure

To receive a credit for a breach of this SLA, the Customer's account must be paid in full and having no outstanding balances, the Customer must send an email to support {at} blinkcore.com. The email MUST include the Customer's account number, the date & time of breach of the SLA, and the email must be submitted by an authorized contact on the account. Requests for credit must be submitted according to these terms and received by Blinkcore within 2 weeks of breach of SLA. Appropriate credits will be applied within the next two billing cycles after Blinkcore’s validation of the Customer's credit request. Credits are not refundable and can be used only towards future billing charges.

Terms of Service

In the event of any conflict between this SLA and the Terms of Service, the Terms of Service will govern.

Document last modified: 5/23/2011