What really is 100% uptime?

You’ve probably seen hosting companies claim “100% uptime”—and while that sounds like your site will never go down, that’s not entirely accurate without the right infrastructure behind it.

At BionicWP, we offer 100% uptime backed by a high-availability platform that includes standby servers, automated failover, and multi-datacenter redundancy. And because we believe in transparency, we want to walk you through what that really means.

Our infrastructure is designed to eliminate single points of failure and ensure your site remains accessible—even in the face of hardware failure, malicious traffic, or scheduled maintenance. Here's how we handle the most common downtime scenarios:

• Maintenance Windows

  • Occasionally, we perform scheduled maintenance to improve reliability.

  • During these times, traffic is rerouted to standby servers to minimize or eliminate disruption.

  • Most maintenance happens behind the scenes with no impact to uptime.

• Malicious Traffic (e.g., DDoS Attacks)

  • Our platform is built to detect and isolate attacks in real time.

  • While an outage is technically possible during a large-scale attack, our system automatically reroutes traffic to keep services stable and responsive.

• Hardware or Datacenter Failures

  • If a server fails, traffic is instantly moved to a standby server in the same zone.

  • If a full datacenter goes offline, traffic is rerouted to a redundant geographic location in read-only mode, keeping your site up without risking data conflicts.

• We use real-time failover and standby servers to keep your site live through unexpected events.

• We’ve removed single points of failure through redundant networks, servers, and geographic distribution.

• Even in worst-case scenarios, your site remains online—possibly in read-only mode for a brief time, but never fully offline.

• Realistically, this means seconds of interruption per year, not minutes or hours.

And most importantly: we’re honest about it.

Pro Tip: Ask any host claiming 100% uptime how they deliver it. If they don’t mention failover architecture, standby servers, or regional redundancy, they’re marketing—not engineering.

Want to see how our infrastructure keeps your site live through anything? Let us know—we’ll walk you through it.