Afrihost details its network problems

And at the same time, you get an email from them asking about a new product. How about sorting out your current products? On top of that you go to their twitter page they handing out free gigs, how about sorting out your current issues for customers who have already paid for cap before handing out free data?
 
i experienced that crap first hand last night on BF4, was on the loading screen for 74 minutes, in that time the server cycled 6 times.
But according to Brokenfield 4 i was playing all those rounds i even got battle reports for them :p
 
Irony is, their new product they are trying to sell is bundled with Simfy , which is a streaming music service. You can use simfy already at R60 p/month but being on Afrihost myself , my music streaming was buffering and stuttering due to network issues this morning (regular occurance) .

If they want to sell a service like that, they better make sure they can actually stream music on their network consistently.
 
i experienced that crap first hand last night on BF4, was on the loading screen for 74 minutes, in that time the server cycled 6 times.
But according to Brokenfield 4 i was playing all those rounds i even got battle reports for them :p

why didn't you close bf 4?
 
Irony is, their new product they are trying to sell is bundled with Simfy , which is a streaming music service. You can use simfy already at R60 p/month but being on Afrihost myself , my music streaming was buffering and stuttering due to network issues this morning (regular occurance) .

If they want to sell a service like that, they better make sure they can actually stream music on their network consistently.

It's just mind boggling to me that they thought it was a good idea to gauge interest in a new offering like this when you currently experiencing issues.
 
According to their Network Status page, they reckon they have sorted the problem out now

Resolved: 13:23, 22 Nov 2014

UPDATE 22 November 2014 1:25pm Our technical team report that they have isolated the cause of the poor performance on the network and have implemented a solution which they believe will greatly improve our client’s DSL experience. They will continue to monitor performance and refine network management, but we believe that clients should be experiencing normal internet speeds and latency. We’d like to encourage clients to test and if they are still unhappy with their overall experience to contact our support team, so that we can determine if there are outside factors affecting their DSL performance. We are sincerely grateful to clients for their support and patience over this period.

UPDATE 21 November 2014 11:00am Our team are reporting some progress, based on reports from clients, and we expect to see continuous improvement based on these reports. Our team are monitoring the effects of our latest changes, and will continue to work on this until they are satisfied that performance levels are acceptable. We’d like to thank clients for their patience. We’d like to encourage clients still experiencing no change in perfromance to troubleshoot with our support team to ensure that there are no other factors affecting their individual performance.

UPDATE 18 November 2014 8:30am We are still receiving some reports from clients who are not getting the level of experience expected. We will continue to test and monitor until we are confident that the network is working at optimal levels. We thank clients for their patience.

UPDATE 17 November 2014 14:30 Our technical team have been working tirelessly to improve network performance. They believe that have made significant progress and will be monitoring the network for performance. We thank clients for their patience during this time. Any clients experiencing poor performance should contact our support centre to perform standard troubleshooting.

UPDATE 14 November 2014 9:30am Our technical team have worked through the night for several days and are continuing to work towards improving our client’s internet experience. No expense or resource is being spared to resolve this as quickly as possible. We’d like to thank clients for their continued patience, and we hope to report more positive results very soon.
We’re receiving reports from some clients in the North, South and East regions experiencing slow speeds on their DSL connections. Our technical team are investigating incoming queries to determine the possible cause. We apologise to affected clients and assure them that we will continue to work towards improving their internet experience.

https://www.afrihost.com/site/network_status?src=website_nav#tabs
 
Damn...sounds like quite an ordeal. As someone that works in the Telecommunications and ISP industry, I know what it feels like when hardware failures cause outages like this. Glad they resolved it though as it sounds like their biggest product range must have been in complete shambles.

I do like the way they transparently communicated the problem to the public.
 
Word on the street is that this has been fixed...at least for business customers.

Must say the entire thing has been a little shaky communication wise....sure they issued statements but they all sounded dodgy...
 
Word on the street is that this has been fixed...at least for business customers.

Must say the entire thing has been a little shaky communication wise....sure they issued statements but they all sounded dodgy...

Yeah it seems to be fixed. I did have some issues for a day or so after they originally said it was fixed.
 
I've actually just started up an Afrihost business account, and it seems to be running nicely so far.

I think the dodgy statements were because they knew they had a problem but they didn't really know what it was. It's quite hard to give a nice concise statement of what the problem is when you don't actually know what it is. I'm sure if the statement had come from an engineer, it would have been different, but they were from the CEO, trying to explain as best as he could understand the issue, and they seemed pretty honest to me.

It's not nice telling customers that you don't know what's wrong, it's easier to make up some story and blame someone else, but he said this is where we think the problem is and this is what we're doing to try figure it out, and I think he did it in a very transparent way.
 
It's not nice telling customers that you don't know what's wrong, it's easier to make up some story and blame someone else, but he said this is where we think the problem is and this is what we're doing to try figure it out, and I think he did it in a very transparent way.

They did actually say they didn't know what was going on. That wasn't my problem. My problem was being asked about a new product they want to roll out, and handing free gigs out on twitter, when they clearly having issues with the current products.
 
They did actually say they didn't know what was going on. That wasn't my problem. My problem was being asked about a new product they want to roll out, and handing free gigs out on twitter, when they clearly having issues with the current products.

Ya that was probably a bad decision on their part
 
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