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Ukraine: Fire Destroys 20% of Hosting.ua Servers

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Breaking News, Disaster, Economics & Business, Technology, RuNet Echo

Some 20% of the servers at Odessa-based Hosting.ua data center – one of the biggest in Ukraine – are reported to have been destroyed in a fire on March 27. UkrainianWatcher writes [1] (UKR) that “tens of thousands of Ukrainian and a number of Russian sites are currently offline” and re-posts photos of the damaged building by an Odessa city forum user xcorwin [2]. Habrahabr.ru user hosting reports [3] (RUS) that “people are in panic, 10 hours have passed and there's no official info.” Twitter reactions (RUS, UKR) are here [4].