OVHcloud, a large cloud provider, lost its data center in France by fire
A fire in several of the company’s data centers in Strasbourg led to downtime for many sites and services around the world.
If your browser fails to load a website showing the following message:
Your connection to this server has been blocked in this server's firewall.
You need to contact the server owner for further information.
Your blocked IP address is XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
This server's hostname is YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY
where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is your IP-address, then we request that you copy the message and send it to our technical support. You may also only specify the IP address mentioned in the message and the address of your website (your domain). We will find the exact reason why your IP address is blocked and unblock it.
Attention! Showing this message does not mean that the actual website is blocked, but that the specific IP address from which you are trying to access the website has been blocked, for some reason. The website can still be accessed from other IP addresses.
Now it’s NGINX… You still do the development and store your data in Russia, do you?
Dec 12, in Moscow, the police raided the NGINX (the company behind most popular web-server in the world) office and detained the company’s founders — Ilya Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov.