OVH data centers suffered a fire, many popular sites are offline

OVH, the largest hosting provider in Europe, has suffered a terrible fire that destroyed the data centers located in Strasbourg.

OVH, one of the largest hosting providers in the world, has suffered a terrible fire that destroyed its data centers located in Strasbourg.

The news was also confirmed by OVH founder Octave Klaba via Twitter, he also provided a series of updates on the incident.

The French plant in Strasbourg includes 4 data centers, SBG1, SBG2, SBG3, and SBG4 that were shut down due to the incident, and the fire started in SBG2 one. Firefighters immediately acted to contain the fire, but the situation at the SBG2 rapidly went out of control. The authorities isolated the entire plant and closed off its perimeter.

The company is urging its customers to implement their disaster recovery plans because the fire has disrupted its services.

“At 00:47 on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, a fire broke out in a room in one of our 4 datacenters in Strasbourg, SBG2. Please note that the site is not classified as a Seveso site.” reads the announcement published by the company on the status page. “From 5:30 am, the site has been unavailable to our teams for obvious security reasons, under the direction of the prefecture. The fire is now contained. We are relieved that no one was injured, neither among our teams nor among the firefighters and the services of the prefecture, whom we thank for their exemplary mobilization at our side.”

Image from Xavier Garreau @xgarreau

Fire is over and firefighters continue work to cool the buildings, while the company is assessing the damages.

OVH has 15 data centers in Europe, 27 worldwide, it is working to support our customers and mitigate the impact of the incident at the Strasbourg site.

The update provided by Klaba at 11.20 am GMT, all servers in SBG3 are okay, but still non-operational.

At 1 pm the company publicly shared a recovery plan for its operations that will last the next 2 weeks.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.