OVH: fire in Strasbourg, datacenter destroyed. What consequences on the French internet?

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Re: OVH fire in Strasbourg, destroyed datacenter: what consequences on the French internet?




by Exnihiloest » 14/03/21, 21:58

Christophe wrote:...
You missed another opportunity to shut up ...

because "Bastards of Francequillons", is that subtle? : roll:

Google has chosen Belgium for one of its datacenters ... to my knowledge there is none in France ...
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Fantastic, well done Belgium! It was the fallback solution. Google had planned to put it on seal territory in Adélie land, but the power supply was a problem.

In France, we don't need Americans to set up data centers, even brand new ones.
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Re: OVH fire in Strasbourg, destroyed datacenter: what consequences on the French internet?




by Christophe » 15/03/21, 09:08

Interesting * !!!

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“We need to reveal this information that media around the world are sure to ignore. We believe we were at the origin of the fire which devastated, this Wednesday, March 10, the Strasbourg data centers of OVH, the first French host. OVH is 400 servers, 000 data centers, 32 employees, 2500 million euros in turnover in 600. For how many kilowatts of energy consumed? We don't know exactly. We know, on the other hand, that digital technology consumed 2019% of the world's electricity in 10. Today it must be worse.

“We reject the nuisances of the digital industry, from Chinese rare metal mines to landfills in Ghana and Nigeria, including the production of atomic, coal, and renewable electricity, everywhere on the planet.

“Also, we reject the lifestyle imposed by the digital industry, which is accelerating the Covid epidemic. We reject the dehumanization of meetings and the automation of work. We refuse 5G, 4G, optical fiber and all these technologies which contribute to the digital management of the planet and of behavior.

“We reject the imposed passivity of screens. We reject sectarian confinement and the kind of barbaric relations engendered by social bubbles that some still call “social networks”. We are fighting against our planned obsolescence. Rather, we are fighting for life.

“The date of our action was not chosen at random. The fire was due to break out on March 11, the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. We went up the digital flow from a connected toaster to enter the OVH data center and trigger a short-circuit, this by the sole force of our mind, helped only by a few boxes of LSD. But the boxes were too dosed, once inside, we did anything, and the fire broke out too soon - if however the mere power of our shattered brains can cause such damage, which we will unfortunately never know. There you go, sorry for the inconvenience. Have a good day. The Truly Infallible Organization. March 11, 2021. "

(...)

The signature (OVH for Organization Vraiment Hinfaillible) of this claim of the OVH fire suggests that it is a hoax.


https://www.developpez.com/actu/313410/ ... ortements/

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by Christophe » 15/03/21, 09:11

More seriously : https://www.developpez.com/actu/313401/ ... -sinistre/

Look, like a maintenance the day before and everything goes up in smoke ... like Notre Dame de Paris! : Evil: : Evil: : Evil:

OVHcloud: Octave Klaba apologizes and explains that an inverter could be at the origin of the fire

After maintenance that took place the day before the accident

A major fire broke out on the night of Tuesday 9 to Wednesday 10 March at the OVHcloud facilities in Strasbourg. A deplorable incident that took approximately 3,6 million websites across 464 separate domains offline. As investigations continue to elucidate the case, Octave Klaba makes a video release to apologize and answer a question everyone is asking: what caused the fire?

Since the fire was brought under control, the boss of OVHcloud has multiplied the tweets in an attempt to be as transparent as possible by communicating on the impact of the disaster and on what is being done to get everything back to normal. We know that of the four datacenters at the Strasbourg site, one was completely destroyed (SGB2), another partially (SGB1) while the others were spared (SGB3 and SGB4). In one of its latest communications, Octave Klaba unveiled a plan to relaunch its datacenters: until March 15, they will restart SBG1 (partially affected by fire), SBG4 (intact, but shut down for security reasons ) and the network. Then, until March 19, the SBG3 data center, also intact, will in turn be commissioned.

In the meantime, OVHcloud will use its fleet of 15 operational datacenters in Europe to compensate for the unavailability of the Strasbourg site. On its other data centers, the web hosting company will indeed reserve infrastructure for impacted customers.

In a video posted to take stock, the CEO of OVHcloud first apologized before going back to what happened. It was shortly before 1 am that they received the fire alarm. “The technicians on site intervened in a few tens of seconds on the various rooms, they saw a lot of smoke immediately. They made the decision after two minutes to get out of the data center because it was dangerous to stay inside, ”he says. On the origin of the fire, the track followed is that of an inverter which had undergone maintenance the day before the fire.

“When the firefighters intervened, with thermal cameras, they saw two pieces of equipment, inverters, on fire. On one of the two inverters, we had interventions in the morning. A technician who had to do maintenance changed parts inside. The equipment was then put back on the road in the afternoon, ”explains Octave Klaba. In an attempt to understand what happened chronologically and draw conclusions, they need to extract and analyze the videos from the 300 surveillance cameras in the data center, which should be in progress.

The investigation is continuing and the company is still working hard to make this situation a thing of the past as soon as possible. For his part, Mr. Klaba promises to learn from this disaster and do everything now so that such a situation "never happens again". You will find all of his comments in the video below.


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Re: OVH fire in Strasbourg, destroyed datacenter: what consequences on the French internet?




by Ahmed » 15/03/21, 12:11

Christophe, wouldn't you confuse hoax and second degree?
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Re: OVH: fire in Strasbourg, datacenter destroyed. What consequences on the French internet?




by Christophe » 16/03/21, 09:47

What is -can be- recoverable and what is not: https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/lp/status-s ... trasbourg/

I see that a lot of internal backups are not recoverable (logical ...).

For example those of KIMSUFI and VPS ... these are the offers used by small and medium-sized sites precisely (econo was on kimsufi and VPS for a while ...) ... but we also see, fortunately, that not bad backups have been made in other datacenters ...

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Warning: OVH warns that certain services indicated as recoverable may not be: "given the exceptional situation, and despite all our efforts, it is possible that services indicated as recoverable are unfortunately not restored". For the customers concerned, it is necessary to contact the host to obtain clarifications or regularly check the table.

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by Christophe » 16/03/21, 10:05

Ahmed wrote:Christophe, wouldn't you confuse hoax and second degree?


I only did copy and paste ... : Cheesy: I think it is seriously inappropriate and not cool for the thousands of people concerned to use humor on it given the loss of data already confirmed ...

On the other hand that ...

At the same time, OVH has started to act at other levels. In particular, the company reports that billing for March has been suspended for affected customers.

..It's a joke !

In addition, I think that this accident, comparable to an industrial disaster (I think that the costing can be reached at AZF level without the deaths ...), will succeed to a digital security law on the compulsory externalized redundancy of backups ...
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by Christophe » 16/03/21, 10:13

Christophe wrote:In addition, I think that this accident, comparable to an industrial disaster (I think that the costing can be reached at AZF level without the deaths ...), will succeed to a digital security law on the compulsory externalized redundancy of backups ...


https://www.numerama.com/tech/695843-le ... s-web.html


The fire that devastated part of the OVH data center in Strasbourg reminds websites and online services of the importance of providing for redundancy and resilience, in order to be able to withstand such a disaster.

It is a disaster that is a stark reminder that the cloud, despite its ethereal image, relies on very physical infrastructures, and that they can therefore be exposed to all kinds of problems.
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by Christophe » 16/03/21, 16:14

Here is an excerpt from a message from one of the French partners of the forum :

"Our backups also burned down unfortunately, but our technical team is consolidating all the data.
And we hope to restore the platform as soon as possible. "


As was feared and predictable, the backups were internal .... : Cry: : Cry: : Cry:
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by Exnihiloest » 16/03/21, 19:47

Christophe wrote:...
I only did copy and paste ... : Cheesy: I think it is seriously inappropriate and not cool for the thousands of people concerned to use humor on it given the loss of data already confirmed ...
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Some silver lining. Indulging hand in hand with a host, without making a copy on local resources, private or remote from another actor, is still a sign of a lack of thought. Those who have lost data will learn.
I have two small sites at Free and Orange (a hundred GB together), Free and Orange can burn, I will not lose my data. At the cost of the hard drive today, it would be forgivable to make this deadlock.
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by Christophe » 17/03/21, 00:25

Exnihiloest wrote:I have two small sites at Free and Orange (a hundred GB together)


?? Can you host a hundred GB for free ??

Can we see what the sites are like?
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