Photos coming out look scary -
https://twitter.com/hapticmusing/status/1369601127520464897
Not sure when the Internet community saw the case of such a massive fire which destroyed the whole datacenter.
Have heard of minor cases here in the past and there & were mostly contained to few racks/DC rooms etc. Based on datacenters I have seen - pretty much all of them have those big fancy fire doors to contain fire in a give "DC room". Gotta see what report comes out eventually about the engineering failure.
Reminder of old lesson - never store data at single location. Never.
On good part all their employees are safe.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 1:50 PM, Nuno Vieira <
nuno@edgoo.io> wrote:
Some footage. RIP for the data.
https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/1369478732247932929
Seems like OVH (a major hosting player) had a major incident a few hours ago in their Strasbourg (France) datacenter.
Last update an hour ago from their CEO has been destruction of their datacenter SBG2:
Update 5:20pm. Everybody is safe.
Fire destroyed SBG2. A part of SBG1 is destroyed. Firefighters are protecting SBG3. no impact SBG4.
I am not aware of any big brand hosted over there but numerous small companies host directly/indirectly over there. Your users will find random websites/applications not working today.
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