{"id":125490,"date":"2015-05-04T12:14:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T10:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=125490"},"modified":"2015-05-04T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T10:16:38","slug":"load-shedding-wipes-out-mtn-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/125490-load-shedding-wipes-out-mtn-data-centre.html","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding wipes out MTN data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Servers in the MTN Gallo Manor data centre are still offline following a power outage just after 18:00 on\u00a03 May.<\/p>\n

\u201cA number of nodes at the MTN data centre were damaged yesterday as a result of a sudden power spike in the aftermath of a power outage during load shedding,\u201d said Eben Albertyn, chief technology officer at MTN SA.<\/p>\n

The power spike caused an entire cluster in the data centre to fail.<\/p>\n

Albertyn said MTN sourced spares for the damaged equipment, and that\u00a0their engineers are working to restore services.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect the services to be fully restored by lunchtime today. MTN apologises unreservedly to its customers for any inconvenience caused.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reports from MTN\u2019s customers who have received updates from the company suggest the power failure occurred when backup generators failed to kick in during load shedding on Sunday.<\/p>\n

It is not yet clear why the generators failed, or why the necessary spares weren’t on-hand to repair the networking gear that was damaged.<\/p>\n

More articles on recent outages<\/h3>\n

Major MTN Gallo Manor data centre outage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Seacom maintenance may mean slow ADSL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

StarSat pay TV outage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

MTN deep packet inspection upgrade may cause outages<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MTN has given an estimated time-to-repair for an outage affecting some of its hosting customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":118457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[36,21041,8361,42],"class_list":["post-125490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-active","tag-eben-albertyn","tag-gallo-manor-dc","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125494,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125490\/revisions\/125494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}