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Banks, government agencies, and media sites are all down. The number alone reaches 3.5 million. It is said to correspond to 2% of the FR domains.
On March 10 (local time), a fire broke out in Europe’s largest data center located in Strasbourg in eastern France, and among the four data centers operated by OVHcloud, SBG-2 was burned down, and part of SBG-1 was also destroyed. done. There was a problem that sites or services such as Rust, an online survival game that used to store data here, could not be used.
OVH is a French unicorn company founded in 1999 by President Octave Klaba. In the EU, there are many governments and companies that are anxious about storing important data in US companies such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, and in response to these demands, they are growing by making large contracts with Deutsche Telecom.
Europe’s largest hosting provider and 8th in the world. Two days before the fire, there were reports that the Paris stock market IPO was being reviewed. When it comes to realization, it is expected to be the largest IPO this year in France, and there is a response that the timing is strange in the region.
At first, access to the site was banned and the damage situation could not be confirmed, but according to the latest information on the 12th, it is said that the facilities were being inspected by going around the SBG-1, 3rd and 4th rooms one by one. In the case of SBG-1 and 4, the entire server can be restored until the 19th, but SBG-3 is expected to start from the 17th and take 6-8 days. He is currently explaining to the customer company and consulting on the countermeasures individually.
As a result, the popular WordPress plugin WP Rocket also went down, and several places such as Imagify had to suffer service failures at once. In the case of the Game Rust operation team, 22 servers in the EU region went offline due to the fire in the OVH data center from the day of the fire, and OVH SBG-2 was destroyed, which is expected to cause massive damage to the data stored in the burned server. In fact, it was announced that it was impossible to recover data that was lost from servers in the EU region that was hit by the OVH fire.
Meanwhile, the cause of the fire is still unknown. OVH plans to introduce 10,000 new servers over the next few weeks, while securing other data centers for affected customers. Related information can be found here.
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