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News24 feels the heat

Initial reports suggest alarms monitoring heating in the Johannesburg data centre housing 24.com's entire web presence was to blame for the downtime experienced by News24 and other high-profile websites this past weekend.

News24 editor Jannie Momberg says the company is still investigating the cause of the downtime. However, he says: "It looks like it was an overheating issue in the data centre and our servers overheated."

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Source: TechCentral

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