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Europe's large web hosting provider knocked offline following fire

By Mayank Sharma 10 March 2021

Several websites and online services have been knocked offline
following OVH issue

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A major fire has destroyed a data center of web hosting provider OVH
in Strasbourg, France, while severely crippling another, taking many
services offline.

News of the catastrophic incident was confirmed by OVH CEO Octave
Klaba on Twitter, with a statement on the company's website adding,
"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."

OVH is Europe's largest hosting provider and the third-largest in the
world, and has four data centers in its French facility, namely SBG1,
SBG2, SBG3, and SBG4. 

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Service disruptions

According to reports, the incident has caused disruptions to several
major online services, including cyber threat intelligence company
Bad Packets, encryption utility VeraCrypt, news outlet eeNews Europe,
cryptocurrency exchange Deribit, and several others.

In an update Klaba shared that while one of the data centers has been
completely destroyed, firefighters have managed to restrict the
damage to another one. 

Thankfully, all staff have been accounted for and are unhurt, and
everyone at the site is working to ensure the fire doesn't spread to
the third data center. The fourth one is completely unharmed, but it
appears it has been taken offline to prevent damage.

Meanwhile, Klaba urged users to activate their disaster recovery
plans in order to minimize the impact of the disruptions caused by
its data centers being knocked offline.

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Via: BleepingComputer

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