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In case you need to convince yourself or management that hosting in the cloud still requires investment in DR...
From March 10:
One example of the result of a lack of DR:
From March 10:
PARIS (Reuters) - A fire at a French cloud services firm has disrupted millions of websites, knocking out government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space, according to internet monitors.
The fire, which broke out on Wednesday shortly after midnight at OVHcloud, destroyed one of four data centres in Strasbourg, in eastern France, and damaged another, the company said.
There was no immediate explanation provided for the blaze, which erupted just two days after the French cloud computing firm kicked off plans for an initial public offering.
Europe’s largest cloud services provider told clients including the French government, the Centre Pompidou and cryptocurrency exchange Deribit to activate their disaster recovery plans following the blaze.
One example of the result of a lack of DR:
Facepunch, the developer behind popular multiplayer survival game Rust, has confirmed a fire that ravaged cloud computing company OVH’s Strasbourg data center this morning has resulted in the “total loss” of data on several European servers.
Earlier today, 25 of the game’s EU servers went down as the fire destroyed one DC and damaged another, leading to Facepunch warning there would likely be some serious loss of data.
Facepunch first confirmed it was aware of the outage last night before saying the reason for Rust’s 25 server outage was due to the fire at the DC. OVH listed all of the damages and contacted affected parties that Facepunch was able to officially inform players of the loss.
“We’ve confirmed a total loss of the affected EU servers during the OVH data center fire,” Facebunch said. “We’re now exploring replacing the affected servers. Data will be unable to be restored.”
