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mawinder
#1 Posted : Sunday, October 28, 2012 4:32:47 PM
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What is happening?
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kenmac
#2 Posted : Sunday, October 28, 2012 4:42:08 PM
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server failure in germany.

hata developed countries get blackouts
......Ecclesiastes
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mawinder
#3 Posted : Sunday, October 28, 2012 4:59:43 PM
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Kenmac,mpesa is not serious.kwani they dont have a back up server?what if the server is bombed?
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kenmac
#4 Posted : Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:58:16 PM
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here is a statement from CEO,

Quote:
Mobile service provider, Safaricom
has reported a complete outage
on its M-PESA money transfer
service.
This follows a power outage on a
Vodafone server in Germany on
Saturday night that damaged
server discs.
Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore
said, "Our technical teams both
here and in Germany are working
to restore normal services as soon
as possible. However, we expect
services to resume later on today.
We regret the inconvenience
caused."



the service is back though.
......Ecclesiastes
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mawinder
#5 Posted : Sunday, October 28, 2012 9:50:38 PM
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Collymore must have flown his engineers to Germany to work on the server as per his statement.
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sitaki.kujulikana
#6 Posted : Monday, October 29, 2012 9:50:26 AM
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mpesa servers are in germany, I don't know much about servers but, no one in kenya can maintain servers - how did we innovate such a highly praised system.
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radio
#7 Posted : Monday, October 29, 2012 10:26:14 AM
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:
mpesa servers are in germany, I don't know much about servers but, no one in kenya can maintain servers - how did we innovate such a highly praised system.


I hope that was a question rather than a statement.
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wilyum
#8 Posted : Monday, October 29, 2012 10:40:36 AM
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don't the engineers there understand what replication is and disaster recovery sites?

what a shame!!
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bonze
#9 Posted : Monday, October 29, 2012 10:55:57 AM
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Caught napping this time.

For a network service this big and critical, an outage that lasted over 12 hours is absolutely unacceptable. It calls for a press conference, not a mere statement released to the media.

The technology out there to mitigate such component failures is so vast and advanced that subscribers must demand explanations and immediate steps to deter such failures onto the future. Our expectations can't be this low.
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qooler
#10 Posted : Monday, October 29, 2012 11:09:46 AM
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users should have backup servers ( airtel money, yu cash etc)
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