1. Purpose
This Service Level Agreement defines the service availability, security monitoring, backup, recovery, endpoint protection, incident response, support standards and customer responsibilities for the Acronis Cyber Frame service delivered by XcellHost Cloud Services Pvt. Ltd.
The service provides an integrated cyber-resilience framework combining backup, disaster recovery, endpoint security, anti-malware, vulnerability assessment, centralized management and security monitoring within a unified service environment.
2. Service Scope
The service may include:
- Backup and recovery
- Disaster Recovery as a Service
- Endpoint protection
- Anti-malware protection
- Endpoint Detection and Response
- Vulnerability assessment
- Patch management
- Email security
- Data Loss Prevention
- Device control
- Security-awareness support
- Centralized security management
- Security monitoring and alerting
- Incident investigation
- Recovery readiness monitoring
- Compliance and executive reporting
The final service scope depends on the customer’s selected plan, licences, workloads and approved service order.
3. Service Availability
Service component | SLA commitment |
Acronis Cyber Frame Management Platform | 99.9% monthly availability |
Backup and Recovery Services | 99.9% monthly availability |
Disaster Recovery Services | 99.9% monthly availability |
Security and Protection Services | 99.9% monthly availability |
Management Console | 99.9% monthly availability |
Monitoring and Alerting | 24×7 |
Technical Support | As per support plan |
Availability commitments apply only to infrastructure and services directly managed by XcellHost or the applicable Acronis service platform.
4. Support Hours
Standard Support
Monday to Saturday: 9:00 AM–7:00 PM IST
Emergency Support
Emergency support is available 24×7×365 for:
- Complete platform outage
- Active ransomware incident
- Major endpoint compromise
- Critical backup failure
- Disaster declaration
- Data-recovery emergency
- Multiple protected systems unavailable
- Confirmed security breach
- Critical business-service interruption
5. Support Channels
Support Email:support@xcellhost.cloud
Sales Email:sales@xcellhost.cloud
Support Portal:https://supportdesk.xcellhost.cloud/
Website:https://www.xcellhost.cloud
Emergency Support: +91-22-67111555 and +91-8657032540
6. Incident Priority Matrix
Priority | Description | Initial response | Resolution or recovery target |
P1 – Critical | Critical outage, ransomware attack, security breach or major recovery event | 15 minutes | 2 hours for containment, workaround or recovery initiation |
P2 – High | Multiple protected systems affected or significant security degradation | 30 minutes | 4 hours |
P3 – Medium | Single system, backup, security-policy or application issue | 2 business hours | 8 business hours |
P4 – Low | General request, reporting, configuration or advisory support | 4 business hours | 2 business days |
Resolution targets may depend on issue complexity, workload size, internet bandwidth, system access, customer approval and third-party vendor support.
7. Backup and Recovery Services
The service may provide:
- Image-based backups
- File and folder backups
- Physical and virtual server backups
- Endpoint backups
- Application-aware backups
- Incremental backups
- Backup-job monitoring
- Backup integrity verification
- Granular restore
- Bare-metal recovery
- Point-in-time recovery
- Restore to original or alternate locations
- Cloud and local storage options
- Immutable backup options, where licensed
8. Disaster Recovery Services
Where included, the service may provide:
- Cloud failover
- Instant virtualization
- Automated recovery runbooks
- Virtual-machine replication
- Network mapping
- Secure VPN connectivity
- Application recovery
- Test failover
- Disaster-recovery drills
- Recovery readiness monitoring
- Failback to production
- Post-recovery reporting
9. Recovery Objectives
Recovery metric | Standard target |
Recovery Point Objective | From 15 minutes, plan dependent |
Recovery Time Objective | From 15 minutes, plan dependent |
Critical Recovery Initiation | Within 30 minutes |
Backup Verification | Automated |
Replication Monitoring | 24×7 |
Disaster-Recovery Readiness Review | As per subscribed plan |
Actual RPO and RTO depend on the customer’s subscribed package, backup frequency, replication method, workload size, system design and network bandwidth.
10. Endpoint and Cybersecurity Protection
The service may include:
- Next-generation anti-malware
- Anti-ransomware protection
- Endpoint Detection and Response
- Behavioural threat detection
- Malicious-process termination
- Endpoint isolation
- Exploit prevention
- Web protection
- URL filtering
- Device control
- USB control
- Vulnerability scanning
- Security policy management
- Threat intelligence updates
- Security-event logging
11. Vulnerability and Patch Management
Where subscribed, XcellHost will:
- Monitor operating-system vulnerabilities
- Identify missing security updates
- Review patch compliance
- Deploy approved security patches
- Schedule patch deployment
- Monitor patch-installation results
- Report failed patch installations
- Recommend remediation for unsupported systems
Patch deployment may be delayed where compatibility, operational or vendor-support risks are identified.
12. Email Security
Optional email-security services may include:
- Anti-spam protection
- Anti-phishing protection
- Malware scanning
- Malicious-link detection
- Attachment inspection
- Impersonation protection
- Email threat reporting
- Security-policy management
- Quarantine management
Email-security coverage depends on the customer’s selected licence and mail platform.
13. Security Monitoring and Alerting
XcellHost may monitor:
- Backup success and failure
- Endpoint health
- Malware alerts
- Ransomware activity
- Security-policy violations
- Patch status
- Vulnerability findings
- Device connectivity
- Storage utilization
- Replication status
- Recovery readiness
- Suspicious processes
- User and administrative activity
- Service availability
Alerts may be delivered through:
- SMS
- Support ticket
- Management dashboard
- Webhook or API, where supported
14. Security Controls
The service may include:
- AES-256 encryption for stored data
- TLS encryption for data in transit
- Multi-factor authentication
- Role-based access control
- Secure cloud storage
- Administrative audit logs
- Access monitoring
- Strong password controls
- Data-integrity verification
- Immutable backup options
- Security-event logging
- Regular platform updates
15. Performance Targets
Metric | Target |
Platform Availability | At least 99.9% |
Backup Job Success Rate | At least 99.5% |
Replication Success Rate | At least 99.5% |
Critical Support Response | Within 15 minutes |
High-Priority Response | Within 30 minutes |
Disaster-Recovery Initiation | Within 30 minutes |
Security Alert Monitoring | 24×7 |
Threat Intelligence Updates | Continuous |
Backup Integrity Verification | Automated |
Monthly Reporting | As per plan |
Performance targets exclude failures caused by unsupported systems, customer-side outages, revoked access, insufficient storage or disabled service agents.
16. Maintenance Window
Regular Maintenance
Sunday: 11:00 PM–3:00 AM IST
Maintenance activities may include:
- Platform updates
- Security patches
- Detection-engine updates
- Backup verification
- Replication validation
- Infrastructure optimization
- Policy review
- Vulnerability-content updates
- Performance tuning
- Recovery-readiness checks
XcellHost will provide at least 48 hours’ advance notice for planned maintenance wherever practicable.
Emergency maintenance may be performed without prior notice when necessary to protect service security or continuity.
17. Customer Responsibilities
The customer must:
- Provide accurate system and contact information
- Maintain valid subscriptions and licences
- Keep backup and security agents installed
- Maintain stable internet connectivity
- Provide required administrative access
- Keep operating systems and applications supported
- Protect administrator credentials
- Approve backup, retention and security policies
- Inform XcellHost of infrastructure changes
- Report suspected incidents promptly
- Review service reports
- Test recovery procedures periodically
- Follow applicable security and compliance requirements
- Cooperate during security and recovery investigations
18. XcellHost Responsibilities
XcellHost will:
- Configure services included in the subscribed plan
- Monitor covered backups and security events
- Investigate failed backup jobs
- Respond to security alerts
- Assist with recovery and failover
- Maintain the managed service platform
- Apply relevant platform updates
- Monitor service availability
- Escalate vendor-related issues
- Provide technical support
- Maintain appropriate access controls
- Deliver reports where included
- Coordinate during major incidents
- Provide remediation recommendations
19. Reporting
Reports may include:
- Backup success and failure
- Endpoint protection status
- Threat detections
- Ransomware incidents
- Vulnerability findings
- Patch-compliance status
- Recovery readiness
- Replication health
- Storage utilization
- Incident summary
- Security recommendations
- Executive dashboard
- Service-availability summary
Reports may be issued monthly, quarterly or according to the subscribed service plan.
20. Service Exclusions
This SLA does not cover:
- Customer internet or power failures
- Unsupported operating systems
- Systems without active service agents
- Hardware failures outside the managed scope
- Customer configuration errors
- Customer-disabled security controls
- Data corruption before the last successful backup
- Data outside the configured retention period
- Unsupported third-party applications
- Customer removal of backups
- Malware or attacks excluded by customer policy
- Physical theft or damage
- Third-party platform outages
- Force majeure events
- Guaranteed prevention of every cyberattack
- Guaranteed recovery of unsupported or previously corrupted data
21. Service Credits
Service credits apply only to the XcellHost-managed Cyber Frame service.
Monthly availability | Service credit |
99.9% or above | No credit |
99.0%–99.89% | 5% of monthly service fee |
95.0%–98.99% | 10% of monthly service fee |
Below 95.0% | 20% of monthly service fee |
Service credits:
- Apply to future invoices
- Are not redeemable for cash
- Apply only to the affected managed service
- Exclude licensing, hardware and third-party charges
- Must be claimed within 30 days
- Cannot exceed the monthly recurring managed-service fee
22. Escalation Matrix
Level | Team | Responsibility |
Level 1 | Service Desk | Ticket logging and initial troubleshooting |
Level 2 | Backup and Security Engineer | Backup, endpoint and policy investigation |
Level 3 | Senior Cybersecurity or DR Engineer | Advanced security and recovery support |
Level 4 | Infrastructure and Security Manager | Critical incident coordination |
Level 5 | Service Delivery Manager | SLA governance and customer communication |
Vendor Level | Acronis Support | Product-level escalation |
23. Optional Value-Added Services
- Advanced Backup
- Disaster Recovery as a Service
- Acronis Advanced EDR
- Acronis Advanced MDR
- Acronis Advanced XDR
- Immutable backup storage
- Geo-redundant storage
- Microsoft 365 backup
- Email security
- Data Loss Prevention
- Security-awareness training
- SIEM integration
- Dark-web monitoring
- Vulnerability management
- Compliance reporting
- DR testing and drills
- Dedicated security consultant
- Incident-response retainer
24. Service Suspension and Termination
XcellHost may suspend the service where:
- Subscription payments are overdue
- Required access or licences are unavailable
- Customer activity threatens platform security
- The service is used unlawfully
- Security agents are deliberately disabled
- Regulatory or legal instructions require suspension
Upon termination:
- Monitoring and backup jobs may stop
- Console access may be disabled
- Stored data may be deleted according to contractual terms
- Required data exports must be requested before termination
- Outstanding charges remain payable
25. SLA Summary
Metric | Commitment |
Cyber Frame Platform Availability | 99.9% |
Backup Success Target | 99.5% |
Critical Response Time | 15 minutes |
High-Priority Response | 30 minutes |
Monitoring and Alerting | 24×7 |
RPO | From 15 minutes, plan dependent |
RTO | From 15 minutes, plan dependent |
Standard Support | Monday–Saturday, 9:00 AM–7:00 PM IST |
Emergency Support | 24×7×365 |
Planned Maintenance Notice | 48 hours |
Reporting | As per selected plan |
26. Important Disclaimer
This SLA applies to the Acronis Cyber Frame managed service delivered by XcellHost Cloud Services Pvt. Ltd. No cybersecurity, backup or disaster-recovery solution can guarantee prevention of every attack, uninterrupted availability or recovery of all data in every scenario.
Service effectiveness depends on proper licensing, supported workloads, active agents, adequate bandwidth, correct configuration, customer cooperation and implementation of recommended security and recovery measures.
Note: The commercial or official product name “Acronis Cyber Frame” should be confirmed before this SLA is published or attached to a customer contract.