Fire in Europe’s largest cloud services provider

[KMatle]

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.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire-idUSKBN2B20NU

 

[rabbitBUSH]

a matter of time - and a shiver ran through them all - ?

 

[andymc]

It's pretty scary how bad the disaster recovery was for those services, if my bank went offline due to one datacenter fire, I'd think about changing banks.

Granted, I work in cloud DR scenarios, so have high expectations, but these sort of incidents show how badly many companies (and governments) have their IT setup.