Terms & Conditions

Virtual Data Centre Service Level Agreement

1. Definition Of Terms

The following words and expressions shall have meanings hereby assigned to them except where the context otherwise requires: “Company”, “us”, “we”, “our”, “Voyager”, means Voyager Internet Limited; “You”, “Your”, means the party or parties who utilise services provided by Voyager Internet Limited.

2. Support Response Times

Voyager will respond to emergency faults 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year.

During standard support hours (Monday-Friday 8:00AM - 6:00PM NZST excluding public holidays), email [email protected].

For URGENT requests, please prefix the email subject with “URGENT” and follow up with a phone call to the Managed Services Team (09 280 4135), quoting the received ticket reference.

To lodge an after-hours fault, email [email protected] then call the Managed Services Team (09 280 4135, option 4, then 1) quoting the received ticket reference.

Emergency faults include:

• Virtual Machine & Associated Virtual Data Centre Infrastructure Down Faults
• Packet Loss
• Routing Issues

Emergency faults cover virtual machine down and networking faults only and do not cover operating system / software / applications or associated issues.

Voyager may reclassify any issues misclassified as falling into one of the emergency categories listed above, and such issues will not qualify for emergency treatment.

Standard engineering charges apply to support issues outside of the emergency categories listed above.

All other support issues will be handled during Voyager’s standard support hours (Monday-Friday 8:00AM - 6:00PM NZST excluding public holidays).

3. Network Availability

The company guarantees at least 99.99% network availability. Network availability is defined as the ability to pass incoming and outgoing TCP/IP traffic through the Company’s network. Network availability does not include downtime caused by any factor(s) beyond the Company’s control, including such factors as problems on domestic and international backbones or on the customer’s portion of the network, denial of service or similar attacks directed at the Company servers or the Company’s network.

3.1 Penalty For Non-Compliance

Upon your written or email notice to the Company, if network availability for the full month is below the guaranteed level, the Company will issue a refund to You according to the schedule below.

• Network Availability 99.90% - 99.99% - 5% of monthly fee credited
• Network Availability 99.80% - 99.89% - 10% of monthly fee credited
• Network Availability 99.70% - 99.79% - 15% of monthly fee credited
• Network Availability 99.60% - 99.69% - 25% of monthly fee credited
• Network Availability 99.59% or below - 50% of monthly fee credited

4. Virtual Machine Availability

The company guarantees at least 99.98% availability for Virtual Data Centre virtual machines. A virtual machine is considered available when it is:

• powered on;
• able to access data stores associated with the virtual machine;
• connected to the virtual switch and able to pass packets between the virtual switch and the virtual machine.

Virtual machine availability does not include downtime caused by customer configuration or any software running on the virtual machine, including such software as operating system software, application software or any other software that runs on the virtual machine.

4.1 Penalties For Non Compliance

Upon your written or email notice to the Company, if a Virtual Data Centre virtual machine’s availability for the full month is below the guaranteed level, the Company will issue a refund to You according to the schedule below.

• Virtual Machine Availability 99.97% - 99.93% - 10% of monthly fee of affected Virtual Machine credited.
• Virtual Machine Availability 99.92% - 99.46% - 25% of monthly fee of affected Virtual Machine credited.
• Virtual Machine Availability 99.46% or below - 50% of monthly fee of affected Virtual Machine credited.

5. Applying For A Refund

To receive a refund, send an email or written refund request to the Accounts Department. The Customer must provide an Account ID and all dates and times of server or network unavailability.

Refund request must be received by the accounts department within thirty days of the end of the month for which you are requesting a refund.

6. Restrictions

Customers shall not receive any refunds under this SLA in connection with any failure or deficiency of virtual machine availability caused by or associated with:

• circumstances beyond the Company’s reasonable control, including but not limited to, acts of any government body, fire, flood, earthquake, strike or other labour disturbance, interruption of / or delay in transportation, unavailability of / or interruption or delay in telecommunications or third-party services, virus attacks or hackers, failure of third-party software (including, without limitation, ecommerce software, payment gateways, chat, statistics, or free scripts).
• scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades.
• customers acts or omissions (or acts or omissions of others engaged or authorised by the Customer), including without limitation, custom scripting or coding, any negligence, wilful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of the Company’s Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy.
• DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation.