Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire 🔥

[Marco Teixeira <admin () marcoteixeira com>]

I'm sure this is just a coincidence:
"OVHcloud has launched the process for a public offering (IPO) on the Paris
stock exchange. The announcement came on Monday, two days before a fire
destroyed one of the company's 32 global data centers in Strasbourg."

Cheers,



On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 4:03 PM David Hubbard <dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com>
wrote:

> Was thinking the exact same thing; they and Digital Ocean seem to compete
> for the number two spot behind China as a malicious traffic source on all
> my public facing networks.
>
> From the pics, the place looked like it has had quite a few semi-trailer
> containers added around it, perhaps they were running a little too much
> equipment in the building and it required power / hvac augmenting but fire
> suppression was left as it was...
>
>
>
> On 3/10/21, 8:55 AM, "NANOG on behalf of JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG"
> <nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus.com () nanog org on behalf of
> nanog () nanog org> wrote:
>
>     In addition to that, even if this is not good for many "honest" people
> that was using the DC, we need to take it in the positive side. In my own
> case, OVH is probably the cause of 80% of the abuse cases I report, and
> they never react. I'm convinced I'm not the only one, as I read in other
> ops mailing lists ...
>
>     So, the positive side is a) during some days, we can see an
> interesting decrease in abuse cases, b) because the so many abuse cases,
> many OVH "honest" customers are often being filtered because they share
> addresses with the "bad guys", so it is an opportunity for them to move to
> alternative DCs that probably are more careful about "bad guys".
>
>     A good topic for researchers :-)
>
>     Regards,
>     Jordi
>     @jordipalet
>
>
>
>     El 10/3/21 16:44, "NANOG en nombre de Andy Ringsmuth"
> <nanog-bounces+jordi.palet=consulintel.es () nanog org en nombre de
> andy () andyring com> escribió:
>
>
>         > On Mar 10, 2021, at 3:23 AM, Fredy Kuenzler <kuenzler () init7 net>
> wrote:
>         >
>         > Very sad day for our colleagues at OVH AS16276 as they lost
> their datacenter SBG-2 in Strasbourg/France completly („everything is
> destroyed“) in a fire 🔥 and the neighboring SBG1/SBG3/SBG4 at least
> temporary.
>         >
>         >
> https://www.dna.fr/amp/faits-divers-justice/2021/03/10/strasbourg-important-incendie-dans-une-entreprise-situee-sur-un-site-seveso-au-port-du-rhin
>
>         Sad to see of course, but also a little surprising that fire
> suppression systems didn’t, well, suppress the fire.
>
>         Unless they didn’t exist?
>
>
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>         andy () andyring com
>
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> 1863
>
>
>
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