Afrihost Down Again

[Whizz Mobile]

Still down for me. Support also non-existent.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

http://www.host1plus.com/

i use them super cheap and , the servers in s.a gets hosted at IS in jhb.

i pay 2 dollars for a vps with 1tb bandwidth

 

[Dark Agent]

http://www.host1plus.com/

i use them super cheap and , the servers in s.a gets hosted at IS in jhb.

i pay 2 dollars for a vps with 1tb bandwidth

+1

The best part is 100% uptimerobot and 99.6% health with pingdom for the past 2 month 10 days. I got the $10 with host1plus for development server and am impressed. First had afrihost cloud,first week was down time and cancelled immediately. The double back money guarantee is a lie.

I hosted my personal website for one year with afrihost since already paid domain name ,fees.... The uptime was 99.13% in 6 months monitoring with uptimerobot, pingdom reports health of 84.78% and uptime 99.15%. Might not seem a lot, 37 Hours downtime in 6 months but the health seem critical since the site barely had 2 visitors the load time was 15% slower then usual.

Currently giving hostking a run for personal website and going great so far.

 

[Murmaider]

Ag, it depends at the end of the day how much your website is worth to you. Having a personal website with a small number of traffic is okay to host locally.

If you do have serious website generating a substantial income and large number of traffic, you do its hosting in a country with the required technology, infrastructure and experience. Not in a third world country which are still years behind the technology, infrastructure and experience. Besides, the first world countries with the requirements of hosting a website offer these services at a fraction of the price South Africa can.

And the irony of posting this on the largest South African forum, which is hosted with a South African provider which is up pretty much 100% of the time... ?
EDIT : http://mybroadband.co.za/news/general/107824-one-million-south-africans-read-mybroadband.html

I'm not sure where people are hosting in South Africa that they are having such a bad experience with uptime? Unless this is a legacy issue that is still in the minds of people? Looking through Hostgators forums there is a hell of a lot of people complaining about downtime which seems to counter what you say later about 100% uptime for 5 years?

We ourselves have had 100% uptime for about 3 or 4 years now on our environment as I'm sure a lot of local providers have had.

With regard to pricing, it's more complicated. 90% of everything required in the hosting industry is USD based and our exchange rate doesn't help. Plus local providers are forced to add 14% VAT to anything sold. Economies of scale are also a draw card. By this I mean it is easy to sell hosting at $2 when you currently hosting 10 million sites. It's difficult to sell hosting at say R20 when you hosting 10 000.

It's a catch 22 where people won't support local business, but will then moan about local business having to charge more to stay in business...

 

[SilverNodashi]

Can't say I agree with all of what you say.

SA hosting does have the technology.
SA hosting does have the experience and a lot of of the infrastructure.

What however is different, when SA hosting has to compete with international hosting on cost level. You can get exactly the same type of hosting uptime in SA that you would internationally, the difference is...you will have to pay A LOT more. Most South Africans just don't have that luxury however, and as such, they choose international hosting to get the same reliability for lower cost.

Well said!
Somewhere, most South Africans have the impression that South Africa is a 1st world country and should offer excellent services that cost next to nothing!

P.S. Pay peanuts and you get monkeys.

 

[Solitude]

Afrihost is at it again today. Connectivity issues to the Gallo Manor data centre.

I'm trying to copy a file via remote desktop but it's just impossible.

 

[RNJudas]

I have not been active on this forum for a while now... But I must say... This is not a South African problem as much as it is a Afrihost problem... Have we not been here before?

No doubt the cost to host locally is practically out of bounds for most but its also partly to people not putting money back into the localhosts

So to describe my view of this post I will illustrate my views:

Initially everyone was proud to host with afrihost, things ran pretty much like this.. Till:

Since then its been fix after fix but its pretty much been nothing but:

So on my way back I stumble on the forum and read an afrihost titles post and I immediately:

Because, eventually:

So lets all just huddle together and get a new decent local provider, I mean gawd people, our local industry is suffering just as much as your current hosted VM's with afrihost, so when we do, and we will find one, let them bask in that moment.

 

[koeksGHT]

We had terrible experience with Rackspace...

Not much you can do except failovers.


Moving to a mysql cluster now for database scaling/uptime. Webservers will now be mirrored with a fail over if something is to go down.

Pick a host you feel is best and hold on....

 

[mav3r1ck]

Been through this whole Afrihost MTN datacentre down nonsense for a while and got burnt a few times before I eventually learnt my lesson and switched.

The main question is how much does uptime really impact your site, for me of the site is down for even 5 minutes, it has drastic consequences.

If uptime is important then sacrifice a few milliseconds of latency for performance and reliability. I moved all our critical sites to Linode's London DC and haven't looked back. Cloudflare's CDN helps to minimise the latency a bit...

 

[Ipwn 4]

Been through this whole Afrihost MTN datacentre down nonsense for a while and got burnt a few times before I eventually learnt my lesson and switched.

The main question is how much does uptime really impact your site, for me of the site is down for even 5 minutes, it has drastic consequences.

If uptime is important then sacrifice a few milliseconds of latency for performance and reliability. I moved all our critical sites to Linode's London DC and haven't looked back. Cloudflare's CDN helps to minimise the latency a bit...

Or spend decent money and host across more then one DC... I cant help but laugh at people claiming to do millions through their websites yet they have a single instance hosted with someone like Afrihost.

 

[acidrain]

Anyone experiencing issues today with Afrihost?

My printer uses one of the emails i host to send documents.... sent at 14h00, just got email now.