More MTN Gallo Manor data centre downtime

Baxteen said:
word from our MTN rep was Afrihost gor DdOSed
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That wouldn't surprise me. Their service lately has been beyond terrible. Network is absolutely useless for gaming for one on capped and uncapped.

So it wouldn't surprise me if some angry nerds decided to DDOS them.
 
Formal comment from MTN chief technology officer Eben Albertyn:

"MTN experienced packet loss on some of its nodes that service the Gallo Manor area. Our assessment is that our network suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which is hampering our ability to provide connectivity services. Our engineers worked fervently to fully restore services and avert further attacks. Our connectivity is now fully restored. The interruption lasted only a few minutes and is completely unrelated to the outage experienced on Monday. MTN wishes to apologise profusely to its customers for any inconvenience caused."
 
My Afrihost VPS in their Bryanston data centre, thank god. Luckily all my mission critical stuff is hosted with Hetzner.
 
Seems starting this morning with Afrihost being down again. Their level of service has gone from good to terrible.
Seems we have to move to Hetzner.
 
The problem with Afrihost is that they have absolutely no control over "their" data centre, which is not really their data centre at all. Hetzner by contrast actually owns and operates their data centres directly.
 
Maybe unrelated but then i haven't been getting OTP sms' on an MTN number and have had to use alternatives
 
VegOtter said:
That wouldn't surprise me. Their service lately has been beyond terrible. Network is absolutely useless for gaming for one on capped and uncapped.

So it wouldn't surprise me if some angry nerds decided to DDOS them.
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if said angry nerds are afrihost dsl users they don't have enough bandwidth to ddos anyone except a 56k modem user.
 
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