SSR tools and flashcards are amazing for knowledge retention. When I started learning new language, my google sheet with words I wanted memorize grew to hundreds pretty quickly. I wanted the simplest possible app that would let me to import and repeat words from my list anytime I have even a few minutes to spare. And being a developer, of course I decided to write one myself. It’s a bit different than anki and obviously has less features (it’s a pet project after all) but the concept is pretty similar:
https://byheart.io/
And probably you as a customer are a main target of such video, but the fire was such a high-profile case (I think) that this should be more understandable for general audience.
edit: not sure why I got downvoted (and I don't really care that much), I just think that communication from CEO of big company after such event should be clear for everyone, not only for those directly affected.
But ... the video isn't for a general audience. He doesn't have any reason to apologize to a general audience. His customers are the only people that matter in this situation and this video is for them.
Honestly, nobody lost their lives, the impact is pretty much limited to OVH (who need to find a new building), their customers (who need to find new servers and restore backups), and the city of strasbourg (who run the emergency services and presumably will have some involvement in the cleanup). While we're all interested in a "Oh, are we prepared if that happened to our provider?" sense, I don't see why OVH is obliged to provide communications to us, rather than to their customers.
IMO you should take this fire as evidence, that you need to have (working!) backups wherever you host your data. AWS, GCP Azure are not fire resistant, same as OVH.
I don't know if OVH is more or less competent than big three, I choose to trust no one.
I read multiple times that they didn't even have sprinklers, only smoke detectors in their EU datacenter(s). I'm 100% sure AWS, Azure and Google have better fire prevention.
This thread has people saying they have sprinklers, don't have sprinklers, have / don't have gas suppression, and have puppies / actually have toilets.
Wait for the misinformation hose to dry up, and decide in a few weeks.
