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2 years ago, many Lemmy instances in Europe shut down due to a data center fire. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JohnSaveourSocks@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] Willie@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you implying that 2 years ago, that was the only lemmy instance. Or was it only that lemmy instance (and maybe others that went down due to being hosted in the same location) that went down?

[–] JohnSaveourSocks@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the 2nd one is more accurate. Time to change the title.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Wow, I didn't know you could change post titles. The future is now!

[–] Sinnz@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

No firewall?

I’m dead

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 1 year ago

I had a server lost in that fire. Luckily I had a full cloud backup. Watching some businesses freak out about losing their data was crazy.

[–] tubateit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I work in a data centre, and when the details of that fire came out we were flabbergasted how recklessy they had built that thing.