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Networking

Some Good OpenWRT Packages

OpenWRT (Open Wireless Router) is an open source router operating system consisting of the kernel and utilities. It gives you full control and lets you install packages for a customised experience. Jump to Package Screenshots and Usage Some good OpenWRT packages are: luci-app-nlbwmon – network monitoring to answer "who is using all the data?" luci-app-vnstat […]

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ISPs

How Fast does Afrihost Recover from a Datacenter Disaster?

TLDR: Afrihost takes 180 hours or 7.5 days to recover from a datacenter disaster At 18:46 on Wednesday, 29 June 2022, Afrihost cloud services (storage and virtualisation) encountered a catastropic failure. All shared hosting, cloud hosting and dedicated hosting went down. The message from Afrihost’s status page: Due to extended load shedding there was a […]

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company reviews

Vox Telecom Engineer: Are you a fit?

This info is from the perspective of a Vox Telecom employee in the Cloud Services Division of the Core Department around the year 2020. It is to give information to prospective employees as it is hard to get truthful first hand evidence about companies. Most times you only know how it truly is once you […]

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web performance

WordPress performance: Linux, Nginx and PHP-FPM vs Linux, Apache and Mod_PHP

Is migrating a wordpress site to a different architecture setup worth it? This post compares an old architecture to a new architecture. The new architecture is uses a different web server and php gateway. Old architecture: Apache and mod_php New architecture: Nginx and php-fpm Below I run a web page speed test and a load […]

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Telkom

Telkom Prepaid: Once-off mobile data vs LTE/LTE-A Once off

What is the difference between the packages available for telkom wireless data? It is confusing for tech savvy people – probably more so for the general public Wireless is an internet connection using cell phone towers that are 3g, 4g (LTE) and 5g. The 3g, 4g and 5g are standards agreed upon that allow for […]