[HN Gopher] Millions of websites offline after fire at French cl...
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Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services
firm
Author : jamespwilliams
Score : 28 points
Date : 2021-03-10 22:20 UTC (39 minutes ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
| Scoundreller wrote:
| Meh on the websites offline.
|
| What about the seedboxes??? The private VPNs? The FTPs? The
| ownclouds?
|
| Anything big would have had some redundancy, but the little guys
| didn't.
| Bluestein wrote:
| This kind of thing serves me as a reminder of how "physical" our
| "digital" really is ...
| tmfi wrote:
| See current discussion:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407323
| holografix wrote:
| > "There was no immediate explanation provided for the blaze,
| which erupted just two days after the French cloud computing firm
| kicked off plans for an initial public offering."
|
| Very interesting.
| janandonly wrote:
| "Millions of websites".... I have not noticed even one going off-
| line, but I guess France has it's own internet, a bit like North-
| Korea or China?
|
| Anyways, how hard is it to spin up another VPS and relocate your
| website there?
| scomp wrote:
| OVH Definitely hosts a lot of seedboxes.
| chillfox wrote:
| 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.
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