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    Cybersmart / Lightspeed National Outage

    It is quite refreshing to see Laurie being open about the issue and willing to speak about the outage. This part did catch my attention though: I found this claim interesting and took a moment to dig into the data. From what I can see, there doesn’t appear to have been any significant global...
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    Cybersmart / Lightspeed National Outage

    We monitor various networks from our two SmokePing instances (one in Teraco JHB and one in Hetzner Germany). So our data reflects how inbound traffic to Cybersmart’s network looks from our side, not outbound from their end. We could add a US instance, but for now we’re more focused on local and...
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    Cybersmart / Lightspeed National Outage

    I’ve reached out to them via email and WhatsApp, waiting for a human response now. Our SmokePing over the past 3 hours shows: 100% packet loss from JHB via NapAfrica Johannesburg 0.00% packet loss from Hetzner DE This is via NapAfrica JHB: 1 cybersmart.ixp.joburg (196.60.8.246) 0.659 ms...
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    Cybersmart / Lightspeed National Outage

    International connectivity looks to have been restored around 1:40 AM, with only about 1-2% packet loss now. But at the same time, we lost local peering to Cybersmart. Since then, it’s been 100% packet loss via NAPAfrica Johannesburg.
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    Cybersmart / Lightspeed National Outage

    Their local routing (at least between JHB and CPT) has mostly been working since around 8/9 AM, with just a few short drops lasting about a minute each. There was a short window of connectivity between 2:59 AM and 3:21 AM as well, so it does look like they were working on the network overnight...
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    Cybersmart / Lightspeed National Outage

    Their BGP sessions are flapping, which explains the repeated route advertisements. It seems they’re struggling to maintain stable routing. We have 2 peering sessions with them at NAPAfrica JHB, 1 has been down since the issue started and the other is flapping. I’d normally suspect a DDoS, but...
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    Cybersmart / Lightspeed National Outage

    Cloudflare Radar has some interesting stats showing their traffic drop and BGP announcements.
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    Cybersmart / Lightspeed National Outage

    Their notices/status page now shows an ETR of 12 hours: The issue started at 12h40 with around 70% packet loss. Let’s hope they can restore services soon.
  9. Elitehost

    Massive increase in .city Domain

    Hello @DStvNothingOn Unfortunately, the registry has significantly increased the pricing for .ZA city domains. As a result, all providers will need to adjust their pricing for .ZA city gTLDs to reflect these changes. We’ve also contacted DNS.Business and they’ve confirmed that their pricing...
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    EliteHost

    Hello @RedhotNeo, Thank you for your interest, there is some recent feedback over in this thread Feel free to send a PM if you have any questions or requirements
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    1-Grid Hosting

    Hello @rinorobert thank you for your interest in Elitehost. We do provide a WordPress staging option. We can also assist with implementing various WordPress performance enhancements. Please contact us for further information.
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    1-Grid Hosting

    Hello @Bryn Apologies, our website is outdated and we're busy with a redesign. If you have any custom requirements please PM me for a quote. We've been using AMD EPYC for 2.5 years now, the first few servers in this rack are 1st gen Naples, the rest are Rome based. We're looking at 3rd Gen...
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    Elitehost down?

    Hello @lived666, I have checked into the issue and it appears the domain is being registered using the legacy Uniform email-based system. The zone is correct on our name servers and there are no issues, however, their system is still sending back an: "ERROR: No valid nameservers found -...
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    Elitehost down?

    Apologies for the downtime, our network is designed for full redundancy - incidents like this should not occur. We have two core switches, as well as two access switches in each rack where servers are located. These switches are connected using separate fibre pairs. In this case, Teraco...
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    Elitehost down?

    Unfortunately, Teraco has incorrectly decommissioned 2 redundant fibre connections to one of our racks due to a mistake on their side. This is affecting a large portion of our services. They are currently in the process of reinstalling the fibre cross-connects and services should be online by...
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