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Scaleway DC5 Threat of Explosion + Fire
Scaleway has reported a threat of fire and explosion at their DC5 in France due to a nearby building catching fire.
Probably a good idea to get your stuff backed up just in case.
This morning, a fire has started on the building next to our DC5 datacenter. Authorities are on site and currently fighting against the fire. We are heavily mobilized to monitor the situation and keeping our datacenter safe.
Authorities have warned us about chemical products being stored in this neighboor building. There is an explosion threat for the moment.
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Technically that was probably a BLEVE...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_explosion
Thanks, just migrated my stuff over to AlphaRacks to be on the safe side!
Wise move.
So they placed a DC next to a building where chemical products are stored.
Where would you place a DC?
Next to a nuclear power plant like OVH did in GRA.
AlphaRacks isn’t offline — they’ve just blocked incoming connections to protect against brute force attacks.
You’re essentially paying for a VPS with only outbound connectivity.
/s
They probably forgot to replace their UPS batteries though.
They're resting!
Situation taken care of. No more danger.
Tis but a Chest Xray. 3.6 Roentgen
They put a wall there and an actual moat
Europe and your tradition of castle building.
the wall was a specific fire protection wall (knowing the industries around our datacenter, we knew this kind of situation could happen, we already faced a fire near our other datacenter DC2 a few years back, not that big though) so we designed specific protections for this new DC (apparently the wall was designed to hold 2 hours, it survived for 10, so that's pretty good performance
the moat is actually a water retention storage which can be used in fighting fires in the area (also part of the previous point) (used to be a tennis court actually here
but everything went well, fire is almost extinguished (random fumes here and there), firefighters will stay in the area for a while to make sure it does not start again (chemicals fun ...),
so in the end, we had no damages on our infrastructure so we are pretty satisfied with that, but that was a very stressing day for our staff and firefighters (I am told a few ones were slightly injured too...), let's hope tomorrow will be easier for everyone
Did the wall collapse after 10 hours, or was the fire put out after 10 hours?
Oh my god at least that's good thing that the fire is under control by now. Really terrible incident.
it collapsed after 10 hours and at the time the biggest part of the fire was already contained (but it was still burning), I guess water also affected the stability of the wall in the end
online.net: Actually using a firewall properly.
H + 24h: firefighters are still largely mobilized on the site. I decided to evacuate and put out of work my guys and our logistics center because of smells and smoke -> No technical support provided on DC5 / DC5A until Wednesday morning at best.
Aftermath.
We have detected a fiber break on a span between TH2 and DC5. Span between DC5 and DC3 is still up and traffic still flows through this optical path with 400G capacity. We are investigating with our dark fiber provider.
It even gets worse... sounds like sabotage at some point.
https://status.scaleway.com/
Oles (OVH) smiling right now with cold bottle of Crystal champagne...
Sounds like a backhoe.
Well, OVH lost 3 different power uplinks.
Thats a bigger fuck up compared to Online.
How the fuck can you loose 3 different, independent power connections?
And then, you did not saved your network config to disk, only in memory. #rip
Only the french can pull that off.
Heaven:
English policemen
German engineers
French shefs
Hell:
German policemen
English shefs
French engineers
Hope this all ends well, with no one else getting injured (and all the firefighters getting well) and no data/money getting lost.
Wise and ethical decision - respect.
The location isn't surprising. The datacenter that I frequent occationally is "down by the river" - not prime real estate, and not much higher than sea level. I would think a recipe for disaster, but miraculously (to me) been OK, even after some major flooding in the area.
What do you mean?
Not that kind of "hoe" - a backhoe used for digging.
FWIW: According to my experience french engineers aren't worse (and in some areas even better) than german or brit engineers. Unless, of course, the cafeteria chef is a brit. In that case the french engineers will end up killed, either by the food or by suicide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhoe
"backhoe fade":
A circuit or network failure caused by a cable-seeking backhoe, posthole digger, auger, or other piece of earth-moving equipment.
https://www.yourdictionary.com/backhoe-fade#computer
Oh, these days things are so screwed up that words like these confuses me. I would never want the word daddy to be used as a sexual slang just so disgusting