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by qwerty69 3144 days ago
It started with all our SBG servers going down simultaneously. Approximately 1h later all our RBX servers went down as well including the OVH status page and all other OVH web applications. Either their SBG and RBX data centers are somehow connected or those are indeed two independent incidents.
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SBG was a power failure, followed by a generator failure. Not sure if they set up their network infrastructure in a way that this could spread but I find it hard to imagine that the outage in SBG triggered RBX going completely black. Unless of course they store their configuration files in SBG.
It seems RBX was an unrelated failure corrupting the router configuration (@olesovhcom).

SBG going down due to a quadruple power failure (both grid connections and both generators) is quite spectacular.