Website availability and planned maintenance
Whilst we aim for 100% availability, we have a commitment to make our web services available for 98% of the time. Our service level agreement with our website hosts covers the time we expect the website servers to be available. The table below shows the percentage of time the site was available for the last 12 months.
View the planned maintenance list of known website downtime, to find out when we intend to carry out work on any of our website servers.
| Month | Service availability (%) | Target met? |
|---|---|---|
| September 2021 | 99.99 | Yes |
| August 2021 | 99.99 | Yes |
| July 2021 | 99.99 | Yes |
| June 2021 | 99.96 | Yes |
| May 2021 | 100 | Yes |
| April 2021 | 100 | Yes |
| March 2021 | 100 | Yes |
| February 2021 | 99.98 | Yes |
| January 2021 | 99.13 | Yes |
| December 2020 | 99.93 | Yes |
| November 2020 | 99.93 | Yes |
| October 2020 | 99.72 | Yes |
Website availability for the last 12 months was 99.89%.
We report our site availability using information from Siteimprove reporting service.
Planned website maintenance
For various reasons we occasionally have to take our web systems offline.
Last updated: Friday, 1 October, 2021.