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Maybe if OVH had installed an automatic fire extinguishing system or an electric mains cut-off switch, the firefighters wouldn't have struggled with meter-long
by voytec 2y ago
Maybe if OVH had installed an automatic fire extinguishing system or an electric mains cut-off switch, the firefighters wouldn't have struggled with meter-long electrical arcs and could put out the fire quicker.
- liotier 2y agoYes, that hosting center was unsafe as hell. All of OVH's early year featured a lot of duct-tape and daring corner-cutting - that is how they were incredibly cheap. But nowadays they are just as mainstream industrial as their competitors and the 2021 fire marked the end of an era... It is sad that it happened as they were already turning the company around to being an established player. A great writeup of the incident and its context, three years afterwards: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire-france-data-center/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...
- ChocolateGod 2y ago> But nowadays they are just as mainstream industrial as their competitors Shame their control panel is massively behind their competitors, it's the worst cloud control panel I've had the experience of using, even worse than Azure and Google. It's slow slow slow slow slow and horribly buggy, did I mention it's slow?