Google denies data centre fire caused Russia outage - Or, did Google do it?

Rust has lost 25 servers to a fire at a data centre​

Data can't be recovered, the devs say

Even on a good day, the nude murder island of Rust harbours many threats that might rob you, kill you, and destroy your home. Today was not a good day, and the threat was a surprising one. 25 of the sandbox survival game's European servers have been destroyed by a fire at a data centre, and developers Facepunch Studios say they will not be able to restore the lost data.

"25 of our EU servers remain offline due to a fire at OVH Datacenter in the early hours of this morning," Facepunch tweeted this morning. "Unfortunately, the fire destroyed SBG-2 building." They initially said they expected "a large amount of data loss" from those servers, but oof the reality is worse. A follow-up said:

Thankfully, the server company say neither employees nor firefighters were injured.

Facepunch say on the Rust Discord server that the affected servers are: [EU] Facepunch 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20; [EU] Facepunch Large; [EU] Facepunch Small 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, and 11; and [EU] Softcore Facepunch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Several replacement servers have already come back online, with more expected soon, but Facepunch say "All game progress is reset."

I'd like the record to show that I played on one of those servers and had all the best gear and the coolest base ever built in Rust, as well as secret items you're not even supposed to be able to get - thanks to my uncle who created Facepunch, Iann Mod. I'm just gutted I can no longer show you the proof.

Rust has lost 25 servers to a data centre fire

All data from 25 of the survival sandbox game's European servers has been lost in a fire at the data centre.

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Google denies data centre fire caused Russia outage​

Google has denied that recent problems with its services in Russia were the result of a fire at cloud provider OVH data centres in Strasbourg.

The Russian authorities had directly blamed the blaze for disruptions to Google and YouTube.

Google believes an unrelated networking issue was responsible for the problems, which lasted for about two hours.

It suggests it is a coincidence the two events were in the same timeframe.

In a statement Google said: "At 02:00 Pacific Time on 10 March we became aware of an upstream network issue that partially impacted internet service for users in Russia.

"We believe the cause of this incident was a misconfiguration of the routers at a local third-party internet service provider.

"Following extensive investigation we have no evidence to indicate that the fire in OVHCloud's data centre, or Google's own infrastructure, was the root cause of this incident."

Russia's media watchdog the Federal Service for Supervision in Telecom, IT and Mass Communications - also known as Roskomnadzor- told news agency TASS that access to Google, YouTube and a number of other services were "caused by an accident in a major European data centre in Strasbourg".

It went on to say that it was "not connected to the agency's actions on restriction of speed of access to the Twitter social platform".

Russian president Vladimir Putin recently gave the watchdog the power to block social media platforms if they discriminated against Russian media. Twitter was recently slowed down for failing to remove 3,000 posts relating to suicide, drugs and pornography.

The fire in Strasbourg destroyed one data centre and damaged a second.

Cloud service provider OVH has 1.6 million customers across 140 countries but it is not believed any Google services to Russia are routed via OVH.

https://news.yahoo.com/google-denies-data-centre-fire-163640605.html

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[Cabelaz]

Rust was the quickest 2 hour refund ever

 

[Milkis]

Someone at my work said Rust was such a toxic game they wouldn't be surprised if it was a deliberate arson.

 

[OG Swolemaster]

Garry Newman is a lolcow lol.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Now there's a game I'm glad I never got interested in. To be honest maybe all online games should be shut down, might even force a couple of people to go outside.

 

[I Love Beef]

Now there's a game I'm glad I never got interested in. To be honest maybe all online games should be shut down, might even force a couple of people to go outside.

Shitty thing about online games are that some of them deliberately employ gambling based mechanics or stretch out gains and rewards in comparison to normal RPGs/video games to stretch out playtime and milk dopamine instead of interesting content for a quick buck. The latter isn't that bad, depends on how you do it, but the former is much, much, worse.

With Rust, it's practically a zombie post apocalyptic playground where everyone gets to show their true selves without authority or the law around and is allowed to be survival of the fittest. I know it's just a game, but power fantasies and all. This may also come across as woo woo, but when you have that kind of vibe or energy going on with a game, it's like the law of attraction is at play or a bad juju thing is going on, something bad is bound to happen with that kind of shit. It's also funny as I speak on KiwiFarms, but hey, the Farms is where at least everything that wants to be said but isn't socially acceptable is said.

 

[Radical Cadre]

Burn down every data center. Kill Big Tech.

Hang their leaders.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Shitty thing about online games are that some of them deliberately employ gambling based mechanics or stretch out gains and rewards in comparison to normal RPGs/video games to stretch out playtime and milk dopamine instead of interesting content for a quick buck. The latter isn't that bad, depends on how you do it, but the former is much, much, worse.

With Rust, it's practically a zombie post apocalyptic playground where everyone gets to show their true selves without authority or the law around and is allowed to be survival of the fittest. I know it's just a game, but power fantasies and all. This may also come across as woo woo, but when you have that kind of vibe or energy going on with a game, it's like the law of attraction is at play or a bad juju thing is going on, something bad is bound to happen with that kind of shit. It's also funny as I speak on KiwiFarms, but hey, the Farms is where at least everything that wants to be said but isn't socially acceptable is said.

I don't mind playing once in a while but yeah I noticed all the top players put entire paychecks into their accounts and shit. Reminds me of that episode from Welcome to the NHK where Satou gets hooked on a game in the hope that he can farm gold and sell rare items online. It's extremely rare in reality, if it exists at all.