Rust Devastating Fire Results In Total Loss Of Over 20 Servers

A serious fire at a facility run by cloud computing company OVH yesterday has resulted in the complete loss of 25 EU servers for the popular survival video game Rust. Developer Facepunch Studios announced late last night that the servers were affected by the fire with an update just hours ago that the data was “a total loss of the affected EU servers” from the fire and that the affected data will be unable to be restored. While the servers were lost and buildings were damaged, the staff were evacuated and no injuries were reported.

Update:25 of our EU servers remain offline due to a fire at OVH Datacenter in the early hours of this morning. Unfortunately, the fire destroyed SBG-2 building. We’re expecting a large amount of data loss across the affected servers.

We’ll share more news when we can.

Update:We’ve confirmed a total loss of the affected EU servers during the OVH data centre fire. We’re now exploring replacing the affected servers.

Data will be unable to be restored.