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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An article on AWS costs was seen and it was thought decent to convert it to rands from dollars… Taking R:$ as 15 Component $/month R/Month 1 modern vCPU (4 AWS ECUs) 43 645 With 1 year convertible reservation 43 645 With 3 years convertible reservation 30 450 With spot pricing (estimated) 30 450 1 […]