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Comment by chillfox | Hacker News Reader

The article mentions that it’s website’s from across Europe that were hosted there, not just France sites.

Also every country has a lot of local websites, think government and small to medium local businesses.

Also, because of the Europe focus, a disproportionate number of those affected won't be in English. They will be in French, German, Italian etc.

Part of HN's bias is at times because of the US focus, namely Silicon Valley there is quite a information bubble about what actually goes on in the world of nearly 8B people compared to the "mere" 300M in the US. Starting to lose count of the number of people claiming today they have never even heard of OVH despite it's scale. When I did my European education, the number 1 provider used in university was OVH.

If millions of sites are down, and you haven't been impacted by it today, guess what, you are in that bubble.

I for one know that a number of Wordpress plugins are currently borked and Lichess was affected.

Interesting point about the info bubble. Hope people had backup/replication plans. The expensive but good side of this might be that OVH will look carefully at their setup and prevent future versions of fires like this and customers will check over their backup/replication plans. It'd be interesting (though probably impossible to do) to find out how many people didn't have plans setup for this kind of thing.

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