Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career.
On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another.
Different servers, different workloads, one thing in common: the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre.
Then came the news: SBG2 was on fire.
I had 142 servers there.
The mission for the night was simple to state: bring the critical services back before 8, then recover everything else as quickly as possible.
This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.
And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it.
The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically.
📅 Saturday 12 September, 11:15
📍 EuroBSDCon 2026, D.0.02
#BSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #Sysadmin #Infrastructure #RunBSD #NetBSD #OwnYourData #Linux #DisasterRecovery
