Internet Solutions Data Centre outage

gregmcc said:
Apparently MTN have also had a outtage - a power failure in their data centre in JHB. All died at about 4pm
Click to expand...

It was at 15:38 more or less, right when my client phoned me and told me to check their website.
 
eltherza said:
Wonder how many millions they'll have to pay out because of SLAs?
Click to expand...

None. SLA's are BS, they will get their legal team to find some loophole.

Just ask people their personal experiences of dealing with the likes of IS & DD, same old corporate BS.
 
Good gracious, how many data centres in one day? So much for redundancy on the Interwebz.
 
ponder said:
None. SLA's are BS, they will get their legal team to find some loophole.

Just ask people their personal experiences of dealing with the likes of IS & DD, same old corporate BS.
Click to expand...

MTNBusiness doesn't guarantee any level of uptime on their servers. They say that 100% uptime should be part of what you pay for....
 
froot said:
MTNBusiness doesn't guarantee any level of uptime on their servers. They say that 100% uptime should be part of what you pay for....
Click to expand...

There's no such thing as 100% uptime. Five nines I can deal with and have worked in that environment before, it's really not that hard to achieve if you have your ducks in a row. But I suspect your post is sarcastic :p
 
ponder said:
There's no such thing as 100% uptime. Five nines I can deal with and have worked in that environment before, it's really not that hard to achieve if you have your ducks in a row. But I suspect your post is sarcastic :p
Click to expand...

Actually, that was MTN's exact words a while ago..... they were asked why they don't guarantee a "99.999% uptime" like everyone else does.

But yes, assuming the network stays online, they should theoretically apart from critical server maintenance, be able to stay online 100% of the time.
 
Could the MTN and IS outages have caused severe degradation of service on a SAIX gold diginet line ?

Doesn't really make sense to me, but then again I dont know much about stuff like route servers and the like :S
 
ponder said:
There's no such thing as 100% uptime. Five nines I can deal with and have worked in that environment before, it's really not that hard to achieve if you have your ducks in a row. But I suspect your post is sarcastic :p
Click to expand...

Well sir, you have the same CPU as I do, that makes you my friend and I agree with you wholeheartedly.
 
who.is.michael said:
Why anybody would host locally I can't understand - It's expensive, unreliable and slow...
Click to expand...

Well, actually no on the slow bit. Because it is faster for SA people. My wife as a photography web site based in SA for the reason that her customers are from SA. It is faster to access stuff in SA and if a person only has local bw, then it is also logical to make sure your clients can still access your website.
 
I.S have really been slipping lately. We route all of our external calls through them and let them manage it, and it got so bad at one stage the as the person on other side would answer, the call would drop. Eventually had to route our calls through telkom anways. All our cost saving went right out the window.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X