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Europe's treasure trove of data burns on the Rhine
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A devastating fire has now broken out at Europe's largest cloud provider OVH. For reasons that have not yet been clarified, a five-story high data center with space for 12,000 servers in Strasbourg on the banks of the Rhine burned down completely last Wednesday, and another building was half destroyed. The destroyed building also housed the sensitive "hosted private cloud" in which the data of large companies is stored. The French Internet service provider, which is the European market leader in hosting with more than 260,000 servers in more than twenty data centers, was forced to shut down all four halls. Hundreds of firefighters fought the fire, 3.6 million websites went offline, including government portals, banks, news channels and the government website data.gouv.fr.
 
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This has affected a large swathe of the gaming community as their gaming servers have been burnt affecting many hosting companies.
Luckily no one has been hurt but it will take until the 19th for people to get access to their servers again (thats if they are not frazzled).
 
well that's very odd.

I wonder if the building had Grenfell cladding.

I'd expect a valuable datacentre to be well-protected and have a warm-failover to another facility.
 
Who backs up the back up?? OK not the frazzled ones ?

Any sensitive server I have seen in an Office type environment, tended to be in a protected room, with limited access and a dedicated fire suppression system, delivered via inert gas systems fed from large locally stored tanks.
 
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yes

but if the outside of the building was wrapped in Roman Candle....
 
Normally data centers are set up in sets so if one explodes the others take over. But not always and sometimes data does get lost if it wasn't done right or something goes wrong.

You can still get downtime if someone didn't pay for the replicated service or if the SLA gives a few days to come back up.
 
JohnD said:
I wonder if the building had Grenfell cladding.
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other sources suggest a UPS was the source of the fire.

I wonder why it wasn't extinguished?
 
IT Minion said:
Normally data centers are set up in sets so if one explodes the others take over. But not always and sometimes data does get lost if it wasn't done right or something goes wrong. You can still get downtime if someone didn't pay for the replicated service or if the SLA gives a few days to come back up.
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Isn't this "network redundancy"?
 
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