See current discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407323" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407323</a>
> “There was no immediate explanation provided for the blaze, which erupted just two days after the French cloud computing firm kicked off plans for an initial public offering.“<p>Very interesting.
Says a lot about the robustness and degree of centralization of the internet that one data-center going up in flames takes a non-trivial chunk of French domains offline, including government websites.<p>It reminds me of that story recently about the hack on that water recycling plant in the US that was only barely caught and could have poisoned a city. A lot of infrastructure really operates in barely secure fashion.
>There was no immediate explanation provided for the blaze, which erupted just two days after the French cloud computing firm kicked off plans for an initial public offering.<p>That pretty much sums up why the fire started
Meh on the websites offline.<p>What about the seedboxes??? The private VPNs? The FTPs? The ownclouds?<p>Anything big would have had some redundancy, but the little guys didn’t.
"Millions of websites".... I have not noticed even one going off-line, but I guess France has it's own internet, a bit like North-Korea or China?<p>Anyways, how hard is it to spin up another VPS and relocate your website there?