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I've also seen a weird video (lost to time unfortunately), where someone showed that they could yell at their servers in a data centre and introduce errors (or something similar). Was very strange to see, but they had a console up clearly showing that it was having an impact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4&fmt=18
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Where did you get this?
https://www.ovh.com/world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
https://www.ovh.com/world/solutions/centres-de-donnees.xml
and here
"Every data center room is fitted with a fire detection and extinction system, as well as fire doors. OVHcloud complies with the APSAD R4 rule for the installation of mobile and portable fire extinguishers and has the N4 certificate of conformity for all our data centers." https://us.ovhcloud.com/about/company/security
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If you are a corporate entity of some kind, the final layer of your plan should always be "Go bankrupt". You can't successfully recover from every possible disaster and you shouldn't try to. In the event of a sufficiently unlikely event, your business fails and every penny spent attempting the impossible will be wasted, move on and let professional administrators salvage what they can for your creditors. Lots of peop…
IMHO, the part they had no plan for was being unable to just require their employees to come in anyway...
Some pictures of the building with firefighters at work https://www.dna.fr/faits-divers-justice/2021/03/10/strasbour... Edit: Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9jL_THG58U Satellite view of the site on Google Maps https://goo.gl/maps/L2T6YNFCtiyDdiNv7
I can't see anything about a fire suppression system mentioned? Doesn't OVH have one, except for colocation datacenters? A fire detection system using eg. lasers and Inergen(or Argonite) for putting the fire out is commonly used in datacenters. The gas fills the room and reduces the amount of oxygen in the room so most fires are put out within a minute. The cool thing is that the gas is designed to be used in rooms w…
Wow. Weren't they just angling for an IPO? I wonder how much of this was insured and what the impact is to their overall operations.
I think they announced their IP plans yesterday [1], which is probably the worst timing one can have (if there even is a good timing for a datacenter burning down, probably there isn't). If they have a good insurance I'm confident this will have little impact on their operations, I really hope they do. I host a few components on OVH/SoYouStart dedicated servers, luckily not mission critical, but still had rather good…
The timing is so bad that it becomes almost suspicious. When is the best time to sabotage your competitor? When they are the most visible.
nvm not this dc!
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That's true, but it seems whole of SBG region for OVH is within same disaster radius for one fire... with SBG2 destroyed and SBG1 partly damaged. "The whole site has been isolated, which impacts all our services on SBG1, SBG2, SBG3 and SBG4. " Wonder if those SBGx were advertised as being the same as "Availability Zones" - when other cloud providers ensure zones are distanced enough from each other (~1km at least) to…
The buildings are VERY close to one another. https://cdn.baxtel.com/data-center/ovh-strasbourg-campus/pho...
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One of my backup servers used to be in the same datacenter as the primary server. I only recently moved it to a different host. It's still in the same city, though, so I'm considering other options. I'm not a big fan of just-make-a-tarball-of-everything-and-upload-it-to-the-cloud backup methodology, I prefer something a bit more incremental. But with Backblaze B2 being so cheap, I might as well just upload tarballs t…
> I'm not a big fan of just-make-a-tarball-of-everything-and-upload-it-to-the-cloud backup methodology, I prefer something a bit more incremental. pretty much a textbook use-case for zfs with some kind of snapshot-rolling utility. Snap every hour, send backups once a day, prune your backups according to some timetable. Transfer as incrementals against the previous stored snapshot. Plus you get great data integrity ch…
Yes i still don't understand him, a he calls himself a "filesystem guy". Also i don't understand that no one ever mentions NILFS2.
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At a datacentre I used to visit years ago, part of the site induction was learning that if the fire suppression alarm went off, you had a certain amount of time to get out of the room before the argon would deploy, so you should always have a path to the nearest exit in mind. The implication was that it wasn't safe to be in the room once it deployed, but I don't know for sure.
Presumably you would have trouble breathing as it displaced the oxygen in the room?
Maybe there is a concentration of oxygen that is high enough for humans to survive, yet too low to sustain combustion?