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OVH Currently Experiencing an Outage

by DC-3 on 4/17/25, 1:50 AM with 5 comments

Don't have a good link yet but the cloud portal is down and users in various datacentres are reporting that their servers are down.

  • by anenefan on 4/17/25, 3:39 AM

    Some customers of OVH have presently an unknown issue.

    Re translation of intro of [1]

    Thousands of users suddenly lost access to their websites, data, and email, transforming the initial shock into genuine frustration.

    The scale of this OVH outage reveals our vulnerability to a leading French hosting provider. The complete paralysis of dedicated servers combined with the malfunctions of shared servers is generating a cascade of problems. Every minute of OVH service interruption increases the anxiety.

    [1] Relevant paragraph translated using google:

    Origin and impact of the outage on OVH users

    At 3:45 a.m. on Thursday, April 17, 2025, OVH's dedicated and shared servers experienced a sudden outage, the cause of which has not yet been determined. This outage rendered numerous websites inaccessible, causing disruption to business activities for several customers.

    [1] https://www.mediavenir.fr/panne-massive-chez-ovh-que-se-pass...

  • by LinuxBender on 4/17/25, 2:02 AM

    There is a corresponding little spike on downdetector for OVH as well. Only 18 reports but that is uncommon.

  • by Harmon758 on 4/17/25, 4:10 PM

  • by sidibe on 4/17/25, 2:23 AM

    Found out about it through lichess

  • by sierra1011 on 4/17/25, 5:37 AM

    Is another OVH data centre on fire?