Cloud'n'server hosting giant OVH more like OMG: Data center hardware failure knocks out services in France

European cloud giant OVH is suffering a substantial outage today: if there's a website you can't reach right now, it's perhaps hosted by OVH.. Affected services include dedicated and virtual servers, domain names, its cloud platform, anti-DDoS protection, and support. DownDetector shows a lot of complaints of broken services …

[Imhotep]

Totally Not My Fault

"A single vendor's faulty gear".

The finger of blame is being pointed pretty early on this one.

[Detective Emil]

Great!

That means fewer script-kiddie hack attempts on my hosts from OVH address ranges.

[Steve Foster]

Re: Great!

And perhaps less spam - they seem to be sending a lot of "make money online" and "see how to make money by watching this interview" junk lately.

[carl0s]

Re: Great!

Yep!

A good majority of the scumbags in my fail2ban, RDP and SIP honeypot address lists are from OVH.

[Anonymous Coward]

Normalise redundancy?

Is that a euphemism for "sorry, we didn't have any but we've ordered some replacement kit from Ebay which will arrive Real Soon Now"?

[SuperGeek]

Re: Normalise redundancy?

Should have gone to Amazon, quicker delivery :)

[cipnt]

Again!?

They had another *major outage* in July last year and some of their services were unavailable for many days, if not weeks.

Jeez!

[Aron_Pacey]

Very shocking news as they are already a big name. but they should really compensate their users by offering something for free.