{"id":14489,"date":"2010-08-17T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-17T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T10:05:00","slug":"web-africa-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/14489-web-africa-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Web Africa down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous Web Africa ADSL and hosting clients complained that their services went down shortly before noon today.<\/p>\n<p>According to feedback from Web Africa subscribers they could not access any of their Web Africa services, and the company&rsquo;s website and helpdesk was also unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>Web Africa has confirmed that they are experiencing downtime which started around 11:40 today, and that the problem was likely caused by a problem on their core router.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have located an issue on our core router and we are investigating the quickest solution to the connectivity problems being experienced,&rdquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/259269-WebAfrica-is-completely-DEAD!!\">the company said in a post<\/a> on the MyBroadband forums.<\/p>\n<p>Web Africa could not be reached for official comment by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>&nbsp; At 12:40 Web Africa said that they have resolved the problem with their core router, and that their services are starting to come back online.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/259273-Web-Africa-downtime-caused-by-core-router-problems\">Web Africa down<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Africa\u2019s ADSL and hosting services are down, a problem which is likely caused by problems in the Cape Town data centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}