Major outage at Capitec

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Big Capitec outage

Capitec was hit by a significant service outage on Thursday — with online banking, mobile banking, card payments, and ATMs offline.

Several customers vented their frustration at the issues on Twitter and Downdetector.
 
Card payments too? That is problematic. Need to swipe at the petrol station a bit later.
 
R13... said:
This is the first I hear of an outage at Capitec. I doubt they'll fire anyone unless the problem was caused by neglect.
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No system can guarantee 100% uptime. High volume mission critical stuff like those in banks do come close but it can never be guaranteed.

If you have 20 hours of outages in a year, that corresponds to 99.98% uptime which is incredible. But those 20 hours are the ones that make the news, not the other 8,700-odd.

Instead of people gloating about why their bank is more reliable, they should just accept that it will inevitably happen to everyone...
 
I made a deposit and that money seems to have disappeared into the ether.

Always reflects instantly, but not this time.

Luckily I kept the receipt.
 
Kola-CT said:
Our one cloud architect who resigned last week to join them is supposed to be in his notice month, now it seems he started with them this morning...
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Very ambiguous post: Either he is that bad, the day he started, he creates a right big old mess or they needed him urgently.
 
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