Millions of Websites Offline After Fire at French Cloud Services Firm

Millions of Websites Offline After Fire at French Cloud Services Firm
Firefighters working to extinguish a fire at the French cloud computing company OVHcloud in Strasbourg, France, on March 10, 2021. Sapeurs-pompiers du Bas-Rhin/Handout via Reuters
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PARIS—A fire at a French cloud services firm has disrupted millions of websites, knocking out government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites, and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space, according to Internet monitors.

The fire, which broke out on Wednesday shortly after midnight at OVHcloud, destroyed one of four data centers in Strasbourg, eastern France, and damaged another, the company said.