One of OVH's datacenter in Strasbourg, France is literally on fire
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The incident sounded suspicious from the start, but the wording “could not control the fire in SBG2” sounds very ominous ... Chernobyl-y even.
And seeing the compactness of the entire facility (https://baxtel.com/data-center/ovh-strasbourg-campus/photos), it seems an uncontrolled fire could take out all three buildings in short order. I’m very interested in seeing the damage and postmortem from this one.
Also interesting they tout all sorts of sophistication (https://www.ovh.com/world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml), but no mention of fire suppression
https://us.ovhcloud.com/about/company/security
Out of curiosity, which backups are these? Are they OVH backups? I just noticed that our OVH backup server is in the same region as our server (BHS).
"We are currently facing a major incident in our DataCenter of Strasbourg with a fire declared in the building SBG2. Firefighters were immediately on the scene but could not control the fire in SBG2. The whole site has been isolated, which impacts all our services on SBG1, SBG2, SBG3 and SBG4. If your production is in Strasbourg, we recommend to activate your Disaster Recovery Plan. All our teams are fully mobilized along with the firefighters. We will keep you updated as more information becomes available."