Uptime & Fees
How Meshive measures host downtime and how your uptime rate automatically determines your fee tier.
How we define downtime
Section titled “How we define downtime”Meshive’s definition of downtime is intentionally narrow, because we want to penalize only the situations that actually hurt clients.
A minute counts as downtime only when both of the following are true:
- The machine has at least one active client pod, and
- The machine is fully unresponsive — for example, network off or full shutdown — so the control plane cannot reach it.
Everything else is free:
- No active pods on the machine → network off or shutdown is not counted. Take your machine offline whenever it is idle without worry.
- A GPU partially fails (e.g., “fallen off the bus”) while a pod is running → not counted as machine downtime. The platform handles the pod-level consequences separately and does not punish the host for it.
Granularity
Section titled “Granularity”Downtime is sampled once per minute. There is no fractional-minute accounting — either a minute is up or it is down.
No central verification
Section titled “No central verification”There is no manual “verified / deverified” gating by Meshive staff. Your uptime rate is computed objectively from the per-minute samples above, and your fee tier adjusts automatically based on it. Better uptime → better take-rate, with no human in the loop.
Fee tier
Section titled “Fee tier”Your uptime rate is computed as a lifetime cumulative ratio — uptime / (uptime + downtime) — not a rolling window. Every new host also starts with a small seeded penalty (≈ 7.2 hours of pre-counted downtime). With that seed, continuous clean operation moves you up the tiers on roughly this schedule:
| Tier | Min uptime | Platform commission | Host take-rate | Reached after (continuous uptime) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRONZE | (default) | 20% | 80% | day 1 (starting tier) |
| SILVER | ≥ 99.5% | 17.5% | 82.5% | ~2 months |
| GOLD | ≥ 99.66% | 15% | 85% | ~3 months |
| PLATINUM | ≥ 99.75% | 12% | 88% | ~4 months |
| TITANIUM | ≥ 99.83% | 7.5% | 92.5% | ~6 months |
The mapping is monotonic — higher uptime always means a strictly better tier, never worse. Tier transitions are evaluated continuously: as soon as your lifetime rate crosses a threshold, your effective take-rate updates automatically on the next billed minute.
New host promotion
Section titled “New host promotion”Register a machine at any point in 2026 and you lock in our lowest fee — 7.5% (Titanium-tier rate) — for the first 6 months from registration, no matter your starting reliability score. This applies per machine and is fixed at registration time.
The schedule above is designed to hand off cleanly: if you keep the machine running without interruption, your lifetime uptime reaches the Titanium tier right around the 6-month mark — so when the promotion ends, your 7.5% rate simply continues based on your earned tier. If you don’t, your fee returns to whatever tier your uptime has earned.