I have a hard time understanding why they needed humans babysitting the restart of servers and services. Servers and services are supposed to automatically restart after the power came back. This implies OVH doesn't regularly test server restarts with something like Netflix Chaos Monkey.
Moreover, the power lines were not really redundant in SBG, and regarding the network downtime in RBX, it looks like the network core is not really redundant either.
I'd be curious to know how competitors like AWS and Google Cloud mitigate this kind of problems.
Moreover, the power lines were not really redundant in SBG, and regarding the network downtime in RBX, it looks like the network core is not really redundant either.
I'd be curious to know how competitors like AWS and Google Cloud mitigate this kind of problems.