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OVH data center burns down knocking major sites offline

Fire destroyed Strasbourg data centers of OVH located in Strasbourg, France. Cloud computing company provides VPS, dedicated servers, and other web services. Customers affected include free chess server Lichess.org, videogame maker Rust, cryptocurrency exchange Deribit’s blog and docs sites, telecom company AFR-IX, encryption utility VeraCrypt, news outlet eeNews Europe, the art building complex Centre Pompidou, and many others. The fire has been contained as of early hours of March 10th, 2021, but services are expected to remain unavailable for today.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/ovh-data-center-burns-down-knocking-major-sites-offline/

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