I stayed with OVH. Gravelines this time. Their fire suppression was supposedly upgraded across all sites, and the price for a KS-LE is still unbeatable for what I need.
I do have a second backup at Hetzner Nuremberg now. So I guess I did change.
OVH Strasbourg fire, two years later
Our partner ecosystem has expanded to include multi-site orchestration capabilities. The value proposition now encompasses geographically distributed redundancy as a standard client-facing deliverable.
Passive-voice transparency reporting continues to ensure appropriate leverage of synergistic outcomes.
Can someone explain what Ricardo77 actually does? I have read three of his posts and I still do not know.
He resells. With extra words.
From Brazil the fire did not change much for me. I was already using Miami colocation because routing to Europe is terrible. OVH Beauharnois is closer but still 140ms.
What changed is I stopped believing "same continent" means "safe pair." Now I mirror to Miami and São Paulo. Two providers, two power grids, two sets of customs regulations.
Paulo3
Member
andrewpollos59 said:
Routing to Europe is terrible
This. I tried Hetzner Ashburn for a while, 120ms from here. Better than Europe, worse than Miami. Their US prices are in dollars now which is annoying with the exchange rate.
Back to local host plus Miami. The fire taught me that lesson at least.
bravomartha
Member
I tested OVH's new Strasbourg offering six months ago. Same price tier, supposedly new fire suppression. I ran a burn-in for 48 hours, monitored thermal, checked network stability.
It worked fine. I did not keep it because I am not convinced the physical separation from the old building is sufficient. The site is too small for true isolation.
Following.
Did anyone here actually lose data in the fire? Not "I heard someone," actual first person.
kenji3
Member OP
waqasfire said:
Did anyone here actually lose data in the fire?
I did not. I had offsite backups. But I knew people in forums who did. Their backup was on another OVH server in the same room.
The lesson was not about OVH specifically. It was about correlated failure modes. Same building, same fire suppression system, same company, same legal jurisdiction. All correlated.
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