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OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

Oct 13, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

French colocation and cloud provider OVHcloud has experienced a global outage. The company experienced an outage that lasted more than one hour when it started at around 7:00 UTC. OVH revealed that a maintenance reconfiguration error caused it. Besides, OVHcloud’s status page was brought down due to the outage. The founder of OVH, Octave Klaba, said the company has a problem with its entire backbone because of a human error that occurred when reconfiguring the network on its DC to VH. He also added that they planned to isolate the DC VH before fixing the configuration.

OVHcloud witnessed a fire outbreak at its Strasbourg campus which destroyed its SBG2 data center. The fire caused OVHcloud a lot of data losses and outages. Besides, the fire is also expected to cause the company over €105 million ($122m) in settlements. 

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Exterior of GRA1
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Exterior of BHS1
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SBG 3
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SBG-2 Facility
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SBG3 under-construction in 2017
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Rendering of the OVH SBG Campus in Strasbourg
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OVH Strasbourg Campus showing all 3 Buildings (2019)
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Two of the ten generators of the SBG3 datacenter of 1250 kVA each, with an autonomy of 48 hours at full load
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Dramatic night photo of SBG2 burning
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Smoldering aftermath of the March 2021 fire the destroyed SBG2
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An aerial map showing the OVHcloud expansion area on Vint Hill Pkwy
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