No, Ghafla!Kenya Wasn’t Hacked

Earlier today, Saliva Vic -1FM employee- tweeted about Ghafla having been hacked. I honestly don’t know where this rumour emanated from… No, actually i do. Ghafla was down for most of Friday and over the weekend.

Again, i need to reiterate. What Ghafla is basically going through is growing pains. Actually more like teething problems. The site has been experiencing some discomfort from the growth in traffic. We have actually had to shut down the hits counter so that our website host doesn’t keep shutting us down.

That strategy fell flat after a short few hours because even with the hit counter off, we still went over what they consider to be normal traffic or an African site (!) and so they shut us down again. When this happened, our web developer suggested that we take the down time and do something constructive; switch servers.

That tok the better part of the weekend and i’m not sure whether that was completed. Soon as i do, you will too. So no Saliva Vic, Ghafla wasn’t shut down. and trust that we “know people”. We know the President himself. Yup and Jackson Makini likes Ghafla.