When Backups Burn: The OVHcloud Strasbourg Data Center Catastrophe

The OVHcloud Strasbourg data center fire in March 2021 exposed a fundamental flaw in disaster recovery: backups that share the same physical infrastructure and failure domain as primary systems provide no protection. This incident, which took 3.6 million websites offline, reveals that geographic and infrastructure isolation is as critical as the integrity of backup systems themselves in protecting against catastrophic data loss.