Well, this might be a first for the MMO industry: The data center in Strasbourg, France, that housed MechWarrior Online’s servers was partially destroyed in a major fire overnight. Here’s the message from Piranha Games just after midnight early this morning:
“There has been a fire at the EU datacenter that hosts the Game Servers for MWO. We hope everyone at the location is safe and sound. While we can’t tell you when the Dedicated Servers will be back up we can reassure you that your account information safely located at another data center with backup and redundancy at secondary locations. We will do our best to keep you up to date on getting the EU servers back up for players in that region. We also appreciate your patience while the situation is assessed.”
Piranha president Russ Bullock’s statement was even more colorful:
“Huge fire at the Strasbourg OVH data center. Entire buildings burnt to the ground. Unclear if our servers are burned or just down while the emergency is underway. More updates as we get them. Appreciate your patience which playing on the NA server in the meantime.”
Tech news reports say that it took more than 100 firefighters and 44 fire engines six hours to control the fire. Apparently, there were OVH staff at the scene, but thankfully nobody was harmed. Many of the sever clusters and buildings were destroyed outright, meaning that you should expect to see some European game servers and websites having issues today as they enact their “disaster recovery” plans as OVH has suggested.
#Strasbourg Un bâtiment de stockage de serveurs informatiques @OVHcloud_FR ravagé par un incendie #DNAinfos https://t.co/EuELb9Nux3 pic.twitter.com/MKlXDInhWP
— Antoine Bonin (@abonin_DNA) March 10, 2021
Update:
We've confirmed a total loss of the affected EU servers during the OVH data centre fire. We're now exploring replacing the affected servers.Data will be unable to be restored.
— Rust (@playrust) March 10, 2021
