Effective: August 15, 2020
Softhouse provides a 99.99% Uptime commitment for customers (our Service Level Agreement or SLA) . If we fall short of our 99.99% Uptime commitment and your environment is affected, we’ll apply a Service Credit to your account for future use.
SLA breakdown
Downtime
Downtime is the overall number of minutes the Services was unavailable during a Softhouse fiscal quarter (i.e., January 1 through March 31 and every three month period thereafter). Softhouse calculates unavailability using server monitoring software to measure the server side error rate, ping test results, web server tests, TCP port tests, and website tests.
Downtime excludes the following:
Slowness or other performance issues with individual features (link expansions, search, file uploads, etc.)
Issues that are related to external apps or third parties
Any products or features identified as pilot, alpha, beta or similar
External network or equipment problems outside of our reasonable control, such as bad routing tables between your internet service provider (ISP) and our server
Scheduled Downtime for maintenance
Uptime Commitment
Uptime is the percentage of total possible minutes Softhouse was available during a fiscal quarter. Our commitment is to maintain at least 99.99% Uptime:
(total minutes in quarter - Downtime) / total minutes in quarter 99.99%
Scheduled Downtime
Sometimes we need to perform maintenance to keep DCT working smoothly. If scheduled downtime is necessary, we’ll give you at least 48 hours advance notice. In a year, scheduled downtime won’t exceed 10 hours.
Service Credits
If we fall short of our Uptime commitment, we’ll apply a credit to each affected account equal to 10 times the amount that the environment during the period Softhouse was down (we call these Service Credits).
Service Credits are not refunds, cannot be exchanged into a cash amount, are capped at a maximum of 30 days of paid service, require you to have paid any outstanding invoices and expire upon termination of your customer contract. Service Credits are the sole and exclusive remedy for any failure by Softhouse to meet its obligations under this SLA.
Note, Downtime doesn’t affect everyone at the same time or in the same way. For example, some accounts may receive Service Credits during an outage in their region, while other accounts in other regions that have not been similarly affected will not.
Updates
As our business evolves, we may change our Service Level Agreement. Customers can review the most current version of the Service Level Agreement at any time by visiting this page.