Security News > 2021 > March > OVH data center burns down knocking major sites offline
In a major unprecedented incident, data centers of OVH located in Strasbourg, France have been destroyed by fire.
Customers are being advised by the company to enact their disaster recovery plans after the fire has rendered multiple data centers unserviceable, impacting websites around the world.
We are currently facing a major incident in our DataCenter of Strasbourg with a fire declared in the building SBG2.Firefighters were immediately on the scene but could not control the fire in SBG2.The whole site has been isolated, which impacts all our services on SBG1, SBG2, SBG3 and SBG4.If your production is in Strasbourg, we recommend to activate your Disaster Recovery Plan.All our teams are fully mobilized along with the firefighters.
As a result of this incident major customers of OVH state their web services are inaccessible.
Although according to the OVH founder and chairman Octave Klaba, the fire has been contained as of early hours of March 10th, 2021, services are expected to remain unavailable at least for today.
Customers should immediately bring into effect their disaster recovery plans while OVH is yet to bring its services back up.