Fire at French data centre disrupts millions of websites

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The company has urged clients to activate their disaster recovery plans following the incident

Websites across Europe went offline on Wednesday, after a fire at French cloud services company OVHcloud destroyed one of the site's data centres and forced the temporary shutdown of the remaining ...

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