alt Hacker NewsHow many data centers have had a server room burn to the ground?
We had a halon system in an on-prem data center twice the size of my bedroom. We had to knock out a wall because the volume was too small for the smallest cooling system we could get installed in the building. That was 20 years ago, and we had to do it for insurance reasons. In the United States, which I know you Europeans like to make fun of for being sooo amusingly Neanderthal.
What the absolute fuck, OVH.
I think the OVH datacenter was also built of wood and right next to another "independent" datacenter which also burned down when the fire spread.
OVH is about cheap, not quality.
Like hetzner they come from the vps/hosting end of the market which is all about cutting corners, packing vms, overselling, etc. Very much the cowboy end of the market.