{"id":13922,"date":"2011-09-09T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"afrihost-launches-afrigamer-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13922-afrihost-launches-afrigamer-servers","title":{"rendered":"Afrihost launches AfriGamer servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost took the wraps off their latest online product on Thursday, 8 September 2011 &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrihost.com\/site\/page\/afrigamer_servers\/src=homeslide\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"AfriGamer Servers\">AfriGamer Servers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The  new Afrihost gaming servers sportssome of the most popular online  gaming titles, including Counter-Strike Source, Team Fortress 2, Left 4  Dead 2, Brink and Homefront.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also planning to  expand on their gaming titles. &ldquo;We will be expanding our list of gaming  titles in the coming weeks as more people start using the service, so  check back often to see what cool new games we have available,&rdquo; Afrihost  said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>The AfriGamer Servers are open to all  Internet users, but Afrihost advises users to use one of their accounts  to ensure the lowest possible latency.<\/p>\n<p>The Afrihost gaming servers are hosted on the Internet Solutions (IS) backbone in the IS\/Afrihost data centre.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost  however highlights that their gaming servers are separate from the IS  gaming servers and are fully managed by the Afrihost team.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost  CEO Gian Visser said that they have many gamers as loyal clients and  this is one of the ways in which they are trying to add more value to  their clients.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our Gamers are valued and important clients to us  and as such we have a whole bunch of exciting gamer specific initiatives  planned over the next few months,&rdquo; said Visser.<\/p>\n<p>Visser said that consumers can expect the first Afrigamer ADSL packages as early as next month (October 2011).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17462-Afrihost-launches-gaming-servers-AfriGamer\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Afrihost launches AfriGamer servers\"><strong>Afrihost launches AfriGamer servers<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADSL ISP and hosting provider Afrihost unveils their AfriGamer Servers; AfriGamer ADSL packages planned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}