News24 feels the heat
1 Feb 2011
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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