It is terrible timing with the company planning an IPO and also because the French government has heavily backed OVH. I think some government websites went down. France has a statist tradition that leads it to get involved in industries where has no expertise. ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+rod.beck=unitedcablecompany.com@nanog.org> on behalf of Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2021 9:43 PM To: Lukas Tribus <lukas@ltri.eu> Cc: Eilers, Laura via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ????
Statement (in French) from Octave Klaba, containing some discussion of the development of the fire (starts at ~ 4:30): https://www.ovh.com/fr/images/sbg/index-fr.html English: https://www.ovh.com/fr/images/sbg/index-en.html
and a few hundred of us hoping we never have to stand in front of that camera to explain a similar incident a few things stood out: where backups are located, the ability to build a lot of new servers and the supporting infra, ... but in a week or two i hope he can tell us results of more analysis. randy --- randy@psg.com `gpg --locate-external-keys --auto-key-locate wkd randy@psg.com` signatures are back, thanks to dmarc header butchery