464,000 domains are offline due to OVHcloud data center brand

The fire at the French OVHcloud has left 3.5 million sites offline. These are spread over a total of 464,000 domains. The websites that are offline vary from news sites to government websites. Some of the sites are now back online.

It doesn’t look like the data from the burned down OVHcloud data center in Strasbourg can be recovered. The provider will therefore have to make use of backups elsewhere. Some of the websites are now back online.

Many affected sites are from the French top-level domain .fr. According to an estimate by analyst Netcraft, it concerns 59,600 domains, 1.9 percent of all .fr domains according to the agency. In addition, 24,000 .uk domains are offline due to the fire. Most of the sites that went offline due to the fire were .com domains. The latter category concerns 880,000 pages across 180,000 domains.

OVHcloud has posted an update on the incident on its website. The company expects it to take several weeks before all services are up and running again.

The fire started Wednesday morning. The fire destroyed a five-storey data center with a floor area of ​​500 square meters. It is not yet clear what caused the fire. No one was injured in the fire.