Definitely a crappy situation with OVH. Apparently they were storing backups in the same location as the servers. My employer's public website (not a small company, though not international) was hosted there. Good thing we've had backups copied elsewhere and were able to quickly spin up a replacement on AWS.
Is/was your government blocking other popular sites as well?
do not black out, but sometimes they try and impose heavy censorship. I can’t say that it’s always for no reason.
It is technically very difficult to block any services, but the idea is clearly developing in this direction. The Internet has become a political technology. I think this is one of the reasons why we is here.