# What Is Uptime? Understanding Server Availability

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Uptime describes the percentage of time a service remains available during a measurement period.

## How percentages translate into time

A small percentage difference can represent meaningful downtime over a month or year. Always check the measurement period and whether planned maintenance is excluded.

## Monitor from outside

External monitoring can test HTTP, TCP and other services from independent locations. One failed check does not always mean a complete outage, so confirm with multiple attempts and server logs.

## Improve availability

Use monitoring, capacity planning, updates, backups, redundant infrastructure and documented incident response. Uptime is one part of reliability and should be evaluated with support quality and recovery capability.