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Is it true that OVH has literally all data in that single datacenter?
No. OVH has 27(-1) datacenters.
The buildings are very close together: https://cdn.baxtel.com/data-center/ovh-strasbourg-campus/pho...
And the fire looked really hot...like melting steel containers hot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwGqV17XMAMF_wa?format=jpg&name=...
This would be one of inherient difference between smaller vs. giga players in cloud hosting. AWS/Google/Azure, if this happens, there should only be limited outage to a small fraction of customers. As a matter of fact, Google had such an incident before, and literally no customers (internal and external) noticed.
It's almost tradition to have a rack with UPS's in the bottom and then the rest of the space filled with servers or drive arrays.
We wouldn't ever think of putting a tiny backup generator in the bottom of every rack, so why do we put a battery storage system there? Also, with the advances in battery chemistry technology that improve reliability and density, it's only a matter of time until Lithium chemistry batteries are available and that also increases the risk of fire.
Is there any reason not to move backup power to another room, or even to a separate structure like how they put backup generators on a pad outside of the building?
Second question: is such a system required for this kind of operation? Maybe?
tl;dr UPS maintenance was performed by a vendor the day before the fire. Fire department used a thermal camera to isolate source of fire, it seemed to originate with 2 UPSes, one of which was the recently maintained UPS
Are there industry options or methods of wiring to allow for a UPS room separate from the actual rooms the racks are stored in? It's almost tradition to have a rack with UPS's in the bottom and then the rest of the space filled with servers or drive arrays. We wouldn't ever think of putting a tiny backup generator in the bottom of every rack, so why do we put a battery storage system there? Also, with the advances in…
This would be one of inherient difference between smaller vs. giga players in cloud hosting. AWS/Google/Azure, if this happens, there should only be limited outage to a small fraction of customers. As a matter of fact, Google had such an incident before, and literally no customers (internal and external) noticed.
I can't even find any press articles about the Google incident.
