sure when Eighth Klabah, aka Oles Van Herman (OVH) founded this hosting company in 1999, he did not imagine that 22 years later a fire in his facilities would cause access problems to thousands of websites throughout Europe, among which are some that are so well known in the developer field. like WP Rocket, one of the most used WordPress optimization plugins.
a devastating fire
As the company, one of the main references in the field of hosting in Europe, explains:
“We are currently facing a major incident at our Strasbourg DataCenter with a declared fire in the SBG2 building. Firefighters immediately arrived on the scene, but were unable to control the fire at SBG2. The entire site has been isolated, which affects all of our services on SBG1, SBG2, SBG3 and SBG4. If your production is in Strasbourg, we recommend activating your Disaster Recovery Plan. All our teams are fully mobilized together with the firefighters. We will keep you updated as more information becomes available.”
Octave himself has been in charge of updating the information available on the incident through his Twitter account. In one of his latest updates, he explained that the company is preparing a plan to recover the servers that have not been damaged, and restore service. Despite having the bulk of its infrastructure in Strasbourg, OVH has 30 servers spread all over the world serving more than 1.5 million customers.
Update 11:20 a.m.
All servers in SBG3 are ok. They are off, but not impacted. We create a plan how to restart them and connect to the network. not ETA.
Now, we will verify SBG1.
— Octave Klaba (@olesovhcom)
Update 11:40 a.m.
The network room in SBG1 is ok. 4 rooms destroyed. 8 rooms are ok.
— Octave Klaba (@olesovhcom)
We will continue to update as we have more information.
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