On Fire in a data center of the provider OVHcloud in Strasbourg, France, causes the loss of player data in the survival game Rust. This was reported by developer Facepunch Studios. It is not possible to restore the data.
25 large EU servers initially remained offline as a result of the incident. In the meantime the first official servers are back. People came loudly at the fire Media reports
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What happens now
Facepunch had rented these servers for the EU. It remains to be seen whether a replacement can be found quickly so that all affected EU servers can go online again in a timely manner. The developers want to share new information as soon as it becomes available. At least the first servers with the progress reset are already going online again:
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Rust carries out a scheduled wipe on the official servers every first Thursday of the month, i.e. the game progress is reset monthly anyway. However, it is unclear whether private dedicated servers on which players are not forced to wipe are also affected.
Far-reaching effects
The fire is said to have captured the data center of the provider OVHcloud at around 01:00 a.m. on Wednesday night and subsequently completely destroyed it. The incident has also resulted in significant disruption to the local infrastructure. For example, the websites of the cities of Vichy and Saverne and the public data website data.gouv.fr were temporarily disrupted. The crypto dealer Coinhouse and a local brewery were also affected by the server failure.
The extent of the fire was enormous: even Europe firefighters from the city of Kehl had to be called in to help contain the flames.
OVH-Chef Octave Klaba chronicle the events in his Twitter timeline. OVHcloud provides information on the own website through servers affected by the incident.
