Elevate North

Hosting Service Level Agreement

Last Updated: 14 Jul 2026

What This Covers

This SLA applies to sites and apps hosted on our infrastructure as part of a hosting or maintenance package. It sits alongside our Post-Launch Support policy: that page covers bug fixes and scope, this page covers the hosting itself.

Uptime

We target 99.5% uptime a month, which works out at around 3.5 hours of allowed downtime. This excludes scheduled maintenance windows, which we'll always let you know about in advance.

If uptime drops below this target in a given month, get in touch and we'll credit you one month of hosting fees.

What's Included

  • Server monitoring
  • Security patches and updates to server software
  • Daily backups, kept for 30 days
  • SSL certificate renewal
  • DNS management for domains pointed at our infrastructure
  • 20 minutes of content updates included monthly (e.g. a blog post or image change)

What's Not Included

  • Content updates or site changes beyond the monthly 20 minutes (covered under your retainer or billed hourly)
  • Third-party service outages outside our control (Cloudflare, payment providers, external APIs)
  • Issues caused by changes made outside our infrastructure
  • Domain registration itself, only DNS pointed at us

Response Times

  • Site down: we aim to respond within 4 hours
  • Degraded performance or partial outage: within 1 business day
  • General hosting queries: within 2 business days

We don't offer 24/7 emergency cover. Our working hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Anything reported outside these hours gets picked up the next working day.

Backups & Recovery

Backups run daily and are kept for 30 days. If you need a restore, get in touch and we'll get the most recent clean backup back up as quickly as we can. Restores outside standard hours may take longer.

Force Majeure

We're not liable for downtime caused by events outside our reasonable control, including outages at our infrastructure provider (Hetzner), major internet disruption, or similar events.

Contact

For hosting issues, get in touch at hello@elevatenorth.studio or through your usual point of contact. Include as much detail as you can: what you were doing, what happened, and when.