Yes, that hosting center was unsafe as hell. All of OVH's early year featured a lot of duct-tape and daring corner-cutting - that is how they were incredibly cheap. But nowadays they are just as mainstream industrial as their competitors and the 2021 fire marked the end of an era... It is sad that it happened as they were already turning the company around to being an established player.
> But nowadays they are just as mainstream industrial as their competitors
Shame their control panel is massively behind their competitors, it's the worst cloud control panel I've had the experience of using, even worse than Azure and Google.
It's slow slow slow slow slow and horribly buggy, did I mention it's slow?
A great writeup of the incident and its context, three years afterwards: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...