Archive for November, 2008

Dilemma: SA or International?

Friday, November 21st, 2008

We have a bit of a dilemma…

We aboslutely love doing what we do but we are faced with a major catch-22 in that hosting QuickShare in South Africa has become prohibitively expensive. This is because the cost of bandwidth is easily 600 times more expensive in South Africa than what it is in the USA or Europe. For the price of 1MB here we can get 683MB on a popular hosting service based in the UK.
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Working Through the Glitches

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Data Loss

Recently, we had a bit of a catastrophe on the technical front. We don’t want overwhelm you with unnecessary details, but the short story is that in the end we lost a small portion of our database and as a result we lost exactly 8 files. These files were uploaded between the 5 Nov – 10 Nov. This is not what we’re about and we are taking huge measures to ensure that an incident like this does not happen again! We want to extend a sincere apology to any members who have been affected. If you have been affected please read on:
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