@willie said: because they couldn't shut off the electricity to the DC
didn't one of Olés twitter messages after they went there say something about finally being able to shutoff the gens for SBG3? that made it sound like the gens were running the whole time and obviously posing some risk then.
8 minute video of Oles speaking about the incident. I haven't watched it yet but he looks kind of stressed. Understandable of course. He does sound calm, at least in the first few seconds.
@willie said:
8 minute video of Oles speaking about the incident. I haven't watched it yet but he looks kind of stressed. Understandable of course. He does sound calm, at least in the first few seconds.
@dylightful said:
Poor guy probs hasn't slept in days.
It's really nice to see this sort of concern for the wellbeing of the folks dealing with this. It's easy to point fingers at what they could have done differently (I started thinking that way myself at first), but this must be an incredibly stressful time for all of the admins working to restore what they can.
One of the Game line servers used for VPS was destroyed in the fire.
Ouch, any news from OVH about replacement?
no, it is OVH, I don't expect anything, it's fine.
They should have taken care of your server, not burn it down...
Datacenters aren't supposed to burn down.
That whole thing should have been fire retarded.
I know of dirt cheap storage concrete only communist buildings, that is very hard to burn down.
Wooden floor dacatenter... This is not fire retarded it's totally retarded.
One of the Game line servers used for VPS was destroyed in the fire.
Ouch, any news from OVH about replacement?
no, it is OVH, I don't expect anything, it's fine.
They should have taken care of your server, not burn it down...
Datacenters aren't supposed to burn down.
That whole thing should have been fire retarded.
I know of dirt cheap storage concrete only communist buildings, that is very hard to burn down.
Wooden floor dacatenter... This is not fire retarded it's totally retarded.
Lol yeah, it's the first I heard that their pods or whatever they are had wood floors. Blows my mind but whatever, it's rented servers, obviously nobody in their right mind would colo equipment in a place like that.
And here we talk about not hosting the backups in the same DC as your live data.
It saddens me to read that they have different containers (DC) and still store their customers backup in the same as the live data.
@mikho said:
And here we talk about not hosting the backups in the same DC as your live data.
It saddens me to read that they have different containers (DC) and still store their customers backup in the same as the live data.
One of the Game line servers used for VPS was destroyed in the fire.
Ouch, any news from OVH about replacement?
no, it is OVH, I don't expect anything, it's fine.
They should have taken care of your server, not burn it down...
Datacenters aren't supposed to burn down.
That whole thing should have been fire retarded.
I know of dirt cheap storage concrete only communist buildings, that is very hard to burn down.
Wooden floor dacatenter... This is not fire retarded it's totally retarded.
Lol yeah, it's the first I heard that their pods or whatever they are had wood floors. Blows my mind but whatever, it's rented servers, obviously nobody in their right mind would colo equipment in a place like that.
And i'd bet that they put all cabling, power and network below that wood...
@LeonDynamic said:
I wonder if all the OVH datacentres have got lovely wood flooring throughout or just isolated to SBG1
RBX 4 definitely, because it's the one they invented that kind of structure used for SBG2 in the first place.
I'd guess SBG3 also is pretty much the same...
from images you only can guess that they build something similar in BHS, but only inside the bigger halls:
I'd say chance for wooden floors in between: highly likely ?♂️
Gravelines otherwise seems different because they reused old production halls that weren't so high and therefore they build kind of smaller cages inside that appear to be rather (thin) metal and have no second floor at all:
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didn't one of Olés twitter messages after they went there say something about finally being able to shutoff the gens for SBG3? that made it sound like the gens were running the whole time and obviously posing some risk then.
Sorry for thise without backups. Offsite backup should be a must for every important thing you have online.
I could find a shipping container that cannot be set ablaze like their data center.
omega fail if they used the free ftp space from OVH to store backups, and it was at SBG1 though..
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8 minute video of Oles speaking about the incident. I haven't watched it yet but he looks kind of stressed. Understandable of course. He does sound calm, at least in the first few seconds.
https://www.ovh.com/fr/images/sbg/Octave-Klaba-speaking-en-vid.mp4
Poor guy probs hasn't slept in days.
It's really nice to see this sort of concern for the wellbeing of the folks dealing with this. It's easy to point fingers at what they could have done differently (I started thinking that way myself at first), but this must be an incredibly stressful time for all of the admins working to restore what they can.
This is a reminder to always take backups offsite in another DC
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One of the Game line servers used for VPS was destroyed in the fire.
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Wow!
Ouch, any news from OVH about replacement?
no, it is OVH, I don't expect anything, it's fine.
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Wow!
They should have taken care of your server, not burn it down...
Datacenters aren't supposed to burn down.
That whole thing should have been fire retarded.
I know of dirt cheap storage concrete only communist buildings, that is very hard to burn down.
Wooden floor dacatenter... This is not fire retarded it's totally retarded.
Lol yeah, it's the first I heard that their pods or whatever they are had wood floors. Blows my mind but whatever, it's rented servers, obviously nobody in their right mind would colo equipment in a place like that.
ExtraVM - KVM NVMe VPS in USA, EU, APAC -|- RackColo - Find Colo
Wow!
And here we talk about not hosting the backups in the same DC as your live data.
It saddens me to read that they have different containers (DC) and still store their customers backup in the same as the live data.
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that's how they managed to give 500GB free backup. right next door.
this is a classic case of why backupception is necessary.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
And i'd bet that they put all cabling, power and network below that wood...
Well, they had it running for a bit but then smoke appeared again.
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probably not smoke but rather gas if it came from batteries and without fire. hydrogen tends to explode though... go figure.
Man, their whole DC is a ticking time bomb.
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OVH no longer have plans to restart SBG1 at all and are moving servers to different datacenters.
Dogex pro! I'm losing millions!! /s
I wonder if all the OVH datacentres have got lovely wood flooring throughout or just isolated to SBG1
SBG1 are four container boxes, I believe. So, those don't have wooden floors.
SBG2 had wooden floors, and I assume their other buildings have the same feature.
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RBX 4 definitely, because it's the one they invented that kind of structure used for SBG2 in the first place.
I'd guess SBG3 also is pretty much the same...
from images you only can guess that they build something similar in BHS, but only inside the bigger halls:
I'd say chance for wooden floors in between: highly likely ?♂️
Gravelines otherwise seems different because they reused old production halls that weren't so high and therefore they build kind of smaller cages inside that appear to be rather (thin) metal and have no second floor at all:
so yeah, assess your risks ;-)