Fire destroys OVH Data center

[lammert]

A fire yesterday in an OVH facility in Strasbourg destroyed one data center and damaged another, according to the news release of the hosting company. A reminder that when it comes to hosting, we shouldn't place all eggs in one basket.

Fire at Our Strasbourg Site [ovh.ie]

At 00:47 on Wednesday 10 March 2021, a fire broke out in a room at one of our four OVHcloud datacentres in Strasbourg (SBG2).

The fire mostly destroyed the SBG2 datacentre and partially damaged the SBG1 datacentre (4 of the 12 rooms destroyed).

[engine]

Ouch!

Four of twelve down is quite a lot.

I'd like to think they have fail-safe for the data, but reading this, it doesn't look like it.

We are continuing to assess the impact of this incident, particularly for the customers whose data was located in the datacentre destroyed by the fire.

[JorgeV]

Hello,

Some photos taken by firemen : [twitter.com...]

I don't know how many servers are definitively unrecoverable, but it shows the importance or backups, AND , to have backups located at different Datacenters. And if you are very paranoiac, in different countries, or continents, in case of a natural disaster impacting a whole country, or at least a large area.

[ClosedForLunch]

Looking on the bright side, our websites will have less bot traffic now.

[robzilla]

Four of twelve down is quite a lot.

And that's only SBG1, apparently practically everything in SBG2 was destroyed.

[samwest]

I saw the photos. No halon? The entire building was engulfed in flames, Looks and smells very fishy. Makes me wonder what was stored on those servers.
[datacenterfrontier.com...]

[lammert]

Halon is forbidden in the EU for data centers. Only some old data centers still use it here in the EU.

Some organizations who publicly stated on their twitter feed that their operations are affected are the Piwigo photo CMS, WP-Rocket cache for WordPress and the Wordpress image optimizer Imagify. On the darker side of the internet, 48 nodes of the Tor network have seized operation in the fire.

[lucy24]

our websites will have less bot traffic now

I was thinking, Couldn’t happen to a nicer person.

Pity about all the honest and law-abiding people with legitimate websites, though.

[tangor]

The bigger things get the more concentrated they become ... Hopefully a wake up for the entire net-industry!

[Jonesy]

Looking on the bright side, our websites will have less bot traffic now.

And, my VPS will see fewer visits by crackers.

[graeme_p]

I don't know how many servers are definitively unrecoverable, but it shows the importance or backups, AND , to have backups located at different Datacenters. And if you are very paranoiac, in different countries, or continents, in case of a natural disaster impacting a whole country, or at least a large area.

I would also say with a different provider or on your own machines: otherwise if your account is compromised you might lose access to both.

[JorgeV]

Hello,

From my understanding, all is not yet fully fixed. It's been 50 days; are it looks like some are still awaiting to recover their back up , or at least know if their back up is recoverable.