Comments on: Multiple subsea cable breaks causing internet chaos in South Africa https://techcentral.co.za/internet-south-africa-subsea-cable-breaks/241390/ Technology News Leader In South Africa Fri, 15 Mar 2024 01:43:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 By: gamesbook https://techcentral.co.za/internet-south-africa-subsea-cable-breaks/241390/#comment-166889 Fri, 15 Mar 2024 01:43:18 +0000 https://techcentral.co.za/?p=241390#comment-166889 In reply to Danie van der Merwe.

There definitely are local (SA-owned) data centres with the skills to host and support local businesses who don’t have (or need) self-hosting. Having said that though, it would be great if services hosted with Big Internationals, like Microsoft or Huawei, on their local data centres would be uninterrupted by overseas cabling problems.

]]> By: Toothy https://techcentral.co.za/internet-south-africa-subsea-cable-breaks/241390/#comment-166887 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:13:53 +0000 https://techcentral.co.za/?p=241390#comment-166887 Wait for the day somebody figures out a way to use Microsoft’s own servers to conduct a major DOS attack.
Now that’ll be a popcorn moment.

]]> By: Danie van der Merwe https://techcentral.co.za/internet-south-africa-subsea-cable-breaks/241390/#comment-166886 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:00:23 +0000 https://techcentral.co.za/?p=241390#comment-166886 Cloud vs on-prem open-source hosting… But I suppose few IT skills are left today within enterprises.

]]> By: Marcan https://techcentral.co.za/internet-south-africa-subsea-cable-breaks/241390/#comment-166885 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:18:36 +0000 https://techcentral.co.za/?p=241390#comment-166885 I guess, there are only a limited number of ships worldwide available that can lay and repair these cables. So this might be bad news for SA.

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