Source: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ovh ... de/398485/OVH Datacenter in France was engulfed in flames, taking down thousands of sites and businesses including popular plugins WP Rocket and Imagify. A multitude of businesses are tweeting updates to their clients.
OVH Data Center Fire Darkens Popular Sites Worldwide
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OVH Data Center Fire Darkens Popular Sites Worldwide
I hope everyone is fine, and website owners affected, soon will get their websites up an running again.
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Re: OVH Data Center Fire Darkens Popular Sites Worldwide
An example of why you should always have your own backup of your site 
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...Those who did not backup their data may find themselves in a difficult position. It’s unclear at this time if OVH will be able to restore the data lost on the cloud servers....
Strasbourg datacentre: latest information March 20, 2021Yesterday evening, on Friday 19 March at 18:50 CET, our on-site teams detected smoke in an unconnected battery room in SBG1 (see situation report dated 19 March 22:55). The situation has been brought under control and we are adjusting the operations schedule for the weekend as shown below.
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