{"id":155534,"date":"2016-02-17T18:39:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=155534"},"modified":"2016-02-18T08:38:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T06:38:09","slug":"this-is-why-ontaptv-was-down-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/155534-this-is-why-ontaptv-was-down-today.html","title":{"rendered":"This is why OntapTV was down today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OntapTV, the video on demand service from PCCW Global which <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/138798-ontaptv-com-in-south-africa-for-r89-per-month.html\"><strong>launched in South Africa<\/strong><\/a> during September 2015, experienced an outage earlier today (17 February).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a temporary service issue that has resulted in intermittent cases of the site being inaccessible,\u201d OntapTV told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n<p>Its service was fully restored in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first such case, and we are investigating the matter thoroughly to ensure that there is no repeat of this,\u201d OntapTV said.<\/p>\n<p>The company explained that it had a problem with one of its servers that only impacted accessibility in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe moved quickly across to our back-up systems,\u201d it said. \u201cNaturally we\u2019re doing a post-mortem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OntapTV-downtime.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-155593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-new-size wp-image-155593\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OntapTV-downtime-640x406.jpg\" alt=\"OntapTV downtime\" width=\"640\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OntapTV-downtime-640x406.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OntapTV-downtime-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/OntapTV-downtime.jpg 815w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More video on demand news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/154240-paypal-cuts-support-for-netflix-unblocker-unotelly-report.html\"><strong>PayPal cuts support for Netflix unblocker UnoTelly: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153632-netflix-war-draws-first-blood-vidi-is-dead.html\"><strong>Netflix War draws first blood: Vidi is dead<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/152781-netflix-vs-showmax.html\"><strong>Netflix vs ShowMax<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/151801-netflix-vs-dstv-can-south-africans-cut-the-cord.html\"><strong>Netflix vs DStv \u2013 can South Africans cut the cord?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video on demand service OntapTV experienced an outage in South Africa on 17 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":138830,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,34409,32908],"class_list":["post-155534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-ontaptv","tag-pccw-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155534"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}