We've confirmed a total loss of the affected EU servers during the OVH data centre fire. One such company, Acceis, met the situation with an admirable sense of humour, while providing a dramatic view of the fire. The cloud computing company provides virtual private servers, dedicated servers, and other web services.Ĭustomers are being advised by the company to enact their disaster recovery plans after the fire has rendered multiple data centres unserviceable, impacting websites around the world, and a number of organisations involved in cybersecurity. OVH is the largest hosting provider in Europe and the third largest in the world. In a press statement OVH promised “to communicate as transparently as possible on the progress of our analyses and the implementation of solutions”. Even though the fire department was quick to respond, and the fire was brought under control relatively quickly, the impact has been big.
It took 100 firefighters and 43 fire trucks to fight the fire in the five-story building. A fire in one of the OVH datacenters has destroyed one datacenter and knocked two others offline.
