23Dec2014

Degraded international connectivity to Cape Town data centre – 23 December

Degraded international connectivity to Cape Town data centre - 23 December

The upstream network is experiencing significant packet losses at the moment. Connections from international locations to website in Cape Town may be intermittently slow.

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8Nov2014

Cape Town get-together

V & A Waterfront 2014-11-08: Bryn, Martin, Shaun, Dan, Mary, Sunette, Aretha and Stephen (Anno).

During a vacation in the fairest Cape, we were blessed to meet with a group of clients over drinks at the V&A Waterfront.

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28Oct2014

Improve website loading speed

Fast websites on our servers just got faster with GZIP compression.

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22Oct2014

WWW-26 Server Replacement – 23 and 24 October

WWW-26 Server Replacement – 23 and 24 October

We will replace Linux server WWW-26 shortly, with site migration occurring on Thursday through Saturday. The current server has served us reliably for nearly three years, but a recent problem with the integrity of the RAID array cannot be fixed without major service disruption.

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14Oct2014

The bad guys never sleep

The bad guys never sleep

Patch Tuesday saw a couple really nasty holes in Windows being plugged today. And then there is the news of the passwords for many DropBox accounts being leaked as well (apparently not DropBox’s fault though).

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