The founder and president of Ovhcloud, Octave Klaba, has in a tweet attributed the breakdown to “a human error”.
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“Pretty performance before entering the stock market”, wrote a user on the site downdetector , which gives real-time information on the state and faults of all types of online services while another added: “The reliability of OVH is The more at the rendezvous … “A widespread failure has affected the cloud service provider and hosting OVHCLOUD, Wednesday, October 13, disrupting access to many websites.
In a tweet, the founder and president of Ovhcloud, Octave Klaba, attributed the failure to “a human error”, and specified that it concerned the backbone, that is to say the telecommunications network which connects all OVHCloud infrastructures. The group has endeavored to solve this problem of configuration as soon as possible.
The router with the bad configuration D2 was cut off.
Around 10:30, about an hour and a half after the apparent start of the failure, some websites operators reported a restoration of the activity of their site and OVHCloud services.
The failure occurs at a very bad time for OVHCloud, which is offering its investor securities as part of a planned outlet for Friday.
ovhcloud, European cloud sector champion, had already been the victim of a fire in March in a data center in Strasbourg, which also provoked big disturbances on many websites.