Fire at an OVH Data Center in Europe Takes down Thousands of Sites, Including WP Rocket and Imagify

OVH Datacenter in France was engulfed in flames, taking down thousands of sites and businesses including popular plugins WP Rocket and Imagify. Many sites are reporting having lost their web presence, some also reported data loss.

Sites that do have a backup should be able to change their DNS to point at another server and upload a new site immediately. But it can take several days for the new DNS settings to propagate. So it’s possible that some sites may take a few days to return.

Thankfully there were no injuries.

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— Info Trafic Alsace (@ITA6768) March 10, 2021