Blaze destroys servers at Europe's largest cloud services firm

March 10, 2021 - PARIS (Reuters) - A fire destroyed some servers and temporarily shutdown others at OVH - One of the biggest online services provider in the world (including ours) on Wednesday at around midnight.

We've been using OVH Servers for years without any problems, that's why we are not going to leave them just because of this incident which wasn't their fault, after all. They did their best to stop the fire as soon as they could and they're still working hard to restore all the servers and another good new is that nobody was injured, which is a relief.
This disaster hit over 30,000 Servers located in the Strasbourg Datacenter (SBG-1, SBG-2, SBG-3 and SBG-4), heavily damaging SBG-1 which is completely destroyed and slightly damaging SBG-2 with 4 entire rooms of servers destroyed (but 8 rooms are safe).

Our servers are located in SBG-3 which is one of the 4 datacenters hit by this disaster, but the good new is that our datacenter, in particular, didn't get damaged by direct flames, so we have good chance there was no data loss, altough there was an unexpected blackout, so there could be some minor damage. The guys at OVH are already working to put everything up and running as soon as possible, but they also said servers probably won't come back before around March 19, so please forgive us if we won't be able to provide you the best modded apps you've been dreaming for during these days, but this was totally unexpected and it's probably the biggest disaster of this kind ever recorded in the history of technology, affecting over 30,000 servers and hundred thousands sites in the world.



In the meantime, I'm working on restoring some local copies of the most important pieces of code I wrote for my beloved sbenny.com, and one of these is the License System. You will be glad to know you can still login into your modded games downloaded from our site by using your previous license or, if you don't have access to it anymore, you can use the license "sbenny.com" (a temporary recovery license) and the apps will load just fine. As per the forum, it'll be temporarily offline in order to prevent new users from signing up or people from writing in general, which would create a discrepancy between the *emergency backup* and the original copy which is still hosted on the *offline* dedicated servers at SBG-3, but we'll be active on all social channels (YouTube, Discord, Twitter, Reddit etc..). The main site (sbenny.com) might probably come back online in the next days but as you can't physically download any files, I'm unsure how beneficial this could be.

Sbupload and UsersDownload will keep being OFFLINE as it's impossible for us to restore a 16TB backup, so we'll have to wait until the servers comes back online.

We'll keep you posted for any important updates, in the meantime I wanted to sincerely thank you all for the immense support given all these years! We're probably the longest-lived Android Modding Community on the entire web, as we've been doing mods with love and passion since 2014, way before many of the modding sites you know existed, and it`s the same love and passion I have right now, when writing these lines which gives me an immense power to say: we will be back soon, stronger than ever!
One thing is sure, I'll invest a lot more into emergency recover solutions from now on. Even though this event was unpredictable, I should've been prepared for such disasters, so I take all the responsibility for keeping the sites offline. I'll invest into backup servers (stored into another location) to keep all your data safe and accessible when needed. Right now, I had to purchase another dedicated server to keep you all informed about what happened and restore the license, but it was the least I could do for you all (though it costed me nearly 200 bucks lol). If you would like to be so kind to support us and help us with our server expenses, you can do so by clicking the button below, but rest assured your love is already the biggest gift we could ever dream for, so a donation isn't really necessary.


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