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It seems more likely that their data centers aren't quite as isolated as they thought they'd be. The outage also appears to be limited to their locations in Eur
by pfg 9y ago
It seems more likely that their data centers aren't quite as isolated as they thought they'd be. The outage also appears to be limited to their locations in Europe.
- dx034 9y agoI always wondered why they promote having 6 datacentres in Roubaix when google maps shows that they're all within 50m. Can't be too much redundancy there.
- pyrale 9y agoIt's their original implantation. The 6 DCs in Roubaix are probably there for more storage capacity, not for redundancy.
- dx034 9y agoThen they could call it one DC. A DC can have more than one building. But by saying you have several data centres you imply redundancy, similar to AZs at AWS. And (at least to Amazon), two AZs are far enough away from each other so that one building could blow up without affecting the other one.
- zaarn 9y agoThe two issues are isolated. One datacenter suffered massive power failure while the other hand network equipment fail at roughly the same time.
- pfg 9y agoThe network equipment failure was due to a software error[1]. I would not rule out some kind of cascading failure triggered by the initial outage until the cause of the bug is known, though OVH seems comfortable with such a statement. [1]: http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=28256 http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=28256