Afrihost hit by outage - 28 July 2026

My_King said:
Sooo there I was, 7PM in the Vodacom hosting facility in Midrand.

Company I worked for was hella cheap and also maybe why they failed.

Anyway had 1 of those cheap 2 plug to 3 plug converters for an external to pull a 600GB compressed SQL backup.

POS did not want to plug in. Kept moering the thing until it got in half way.

Blue sparks and then our rack and the next went down.

2 retail companies head offices went down for less than an hour that evening.
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You should have not moer'ed it so hard.
:laugh:

You get your backup done?
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
You should have not moer'ed it so hard.
:laugh:

You get your backup done?
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Should hear my story about installing RAM in the same hosting facility.

Not one server on server rails.

Had to install RAM in the 4th server from the top. Talking about Dell R720s on top of each other. Was not allowed to take the junior with me. Was not allowed to shut them down.
 
My_King said:
Should hear my story about installing RAM in the same hosting facility.

Not one server on server rails.

Had to install RAM in the 4th server from the top. Talking about Dell R720s on top of each other. Was not allowed to take the junior with me. Was not allowed to shut them down.
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You installed the ram without shutting it down? More blue sparks? :ROFL:
 
My_King said:
Should hear my story about installing RAM in the same hosting facility.

Not one server on server rails.

Had to install RAM in the 4th server from the top. Talking about Dell R720s on top of each other. Was not allowed to take the junior with me. Was not allowed to shut them down.
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Eina!!
 
Their support used to be good, but now, especially in the last 3 years, it has worsened massively.
Now, their support cant even fix a lease and giving you responses that frankly, you should not even post to a user that has done all of the tests upfront. They just working from a script and tick boxes it seems.

That's not engineers or support staff, that's call center people and all they can do is take your bitching and that's it, nothing else...
 
miellies said:
Their support used to be good, but now, especially in the last 3 years, it has worsened massively.
Now, their support cant even fix a lease and giving you responses that frankly, you should not even post to a user that has done all of the tests upfront. They just working from a script and tick boxes it seems.

That's not engineers or support staff, that's call center people and all they can do is take your bitching and that's it, nothing else...
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No man, their support has always been kak, except for the support reps on afrihost thread.
 
LOLZ, guess my issues werent too severe ...
But its now hyper-kak, so kak u can't call it kak, cause kak would mean there is something. There is nothing now.
 
wingnut771 said:
No man, their support has always been kak, except for the support reps on afrihost thread.
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Need to change to fiber, and this is weighing against Afrihost - not that I am sure, any of the other options available on Frogfoot are going to be a better gamble.

And yes the Reps, on here are good, just wondering if that will be good enough. And overall I like Afrihost.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Need to change to fiber, and this is weighing against Afrihost - not that I am sure, any of the other options available on Frogfoot are going to be a better gamble.

And yes the Reps, on here are good, just wondering if that will be good enough. And overall I like Afrihost.
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I would choose them just for the clientzone. There's only so much an ISP can do when it comes to FNO issues. So, mybb reps and clientzone. There are 2 reasons. Hope that helps.
 
wingnut771 said:
I would choose them just for the clientzone. There's only so much an ISP can do when it comes to FNO issues. So, mybb reps and clientzone. There are 2 reasons. Hope that helps.
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Just read the VOX thread, and EINA!!

So Afrihost is looking better, being slightly cheaper does not hurt either.
 
I've had excellent service from Afrihost.

Except when their WhatsApp support agent treated me like it was my first day on the internet despite being in IT for over 18 years.
 
Since I placed my notice the service levels, the little that was there, just evaporated.
My fibre service is completely down, unable to pass any traffic and support just sits there.
 
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