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The key differentiator of OVH is the very compact datacenters they achieve thanks to water cooling. Some OVH exec were touting about that in a recent podcast.
by crubier 6y ago
The key differentiator of OVH is the very compact datacenters they achieve thanks to water cooling. Some OVH exec were touting about that in a recent podcast.
Interestingly in this case, having a very compact data center was probably an aggravating factor. This shows how complex these technical choices are, you have to think of operating savings, with a trade off on the gravity of black swan events...
- nnx 6y agoInteresting. That said, the technique is not the issue here, losing a whole datacenter can always happen. This event would have been much less serious if all the four SBG* datacenters were not all so close to each other on the same plot of land. They are so close to each other that they are basically the same physical datacenter with 4 logical partitions.
- delfinom 6y agoThey are all annexes built up over time and a victim of their own success (the site was meant to be more of a edge node in size). The container based annexes were meant to be dismantled 3 years ago but profit probably got in the way