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OVH Data Center Fire Darkens Popular Sites Worldwide

Fire at an OVH Data Center in Europe takes down thousands of sites, including WP Rocket and Imagify

Roger Montti Roger Montti / March 10, 2021 /

OVH Datacenter in France was engulfed in flames, taking down thousands of sites and businesses including popular plugins WP Rocket and Imagify. A multitude of businesses are tweeting updates to their clients.

A fire engulfed an OVH cloud data center that is located in Strasbourg, France. The fire was initially reported to be uncontrolled but was subsequently controlled by firefighters, who remained on the scene to make sure the building cools down.

Update March 11, 2021

The cause of the fire has not been determined. OVH is reserving new servers at other data centers for affected customers, plus an additional 10,000 new servers in the coming weeks.

OVH announced that they are currently securing the site and working on a plan to relaunch two unaffected data centers (SBG3 and SBG4) and one partially affected data center (SBG1).

OVH issued a status announcement on their cloud server support page:

“We are currently facing a major incident in our DataCenter of Strasbourg with a fire declared in the building SBG2.

Firefighters were immediately on the scene but could not control the fire in SBG2.

The whole site has been isolated, which impacts all our services on SBG1, SBG2, SBG3 and SBG4. If your production is in Strasbourg, we recommend to activate your Disaster Recovery Plan. All our teams are fully mobilized along with the firefighters.”

OVH tweeted that while the fire is over, firefighters remain on the scene cooling down the building. They also tweeted that many of the servers will not be restarted soon.