Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

Post by buran77 » Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 9:29 AM UTC

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I'm at OVH as well (in the BHS datacenter, fortunately). I run my entire production system on one beefy machine. The apps and database are replicated to a backup machine hosted with Hetzner (in their Germany datacenter). I also run a tiny VM at OVH which proxies all traffic to Hetzner. I use a failover IP to point at the big rig at OVH. If the main machine fails, I move the failover IP to the VM, which sends all traf…

Are you truly paranoid? If my money and/or job depended on having something running without (or with minimal) disruption I would be as paranoid as you, too. BTW - Some people call this business recovery plan, not plain paranoia ;-)

Post by casi » Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 9:31 AM UTC

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Trust but verify. As a developer it doesn't matter what sysadmins or anyone else says about backups of your data; if you haven't run your DR plan and verified the results, it doesn't exist.

> Trust but verify. If it's business critical should you even trust at all?

Post by rgj » Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 9:37 AM UTC

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With water, they said.

Liquid cooling.

Post by brmgb » Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 9:38 AM UTC

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This problem is usually solved through encryption.

If I were to ask my CISO if I was allowed to bring the production database home, I’m pretty sure his answer wouldn’t be “as long as you encrypt it”.

Post by karambahh » Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 9:41 AM UTC

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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 publicity damage alone will be on par with (if not bigger) their replacement costs. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had to rebrand. 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.