99.93% uptime is not so bad. You should be able to come up with enough excuses and apologies to cover 6 hours of blank screens and complaints each year. That's not too hard. It would be helpful if the downtime weren't during work hours, but hey - that's technology, right?

But why are you making apologies for someone else's mistakes? And how many apologies will it take before it impacts your career path?

People continue to choose giant, poorly designed data centers located in large metropolitan areas where there are hundreds of thousands of dangerous people running around starting fires, spilling chemicals and dancing on tables at weddings.

Over 10 years after the Uptime Institute developed the Tier Classification system that is used by the entire industry, OnePartner should not have the only commercial Tier III data center in the U.S. But we do, and just in case you're wondering, there aren't any Tier IV commercial facilities here either.

We hope our competitors will force us to change our marketing message to "The 1st Commercial Tier III data center in America," rather than the only one. As long as customers continue to put their trust in uncertified data centers, there's no reason for them to improve.

You ultimately will decide.

If you're tired of apologies, use the automatic contract generator and find out just how reasonable a Premium Colo Package from a certified data center is.