As a result of flooding caused by hurricane Sandy is a number of data centres in and around New York City went offline. Among other hoster Datagram is from the air because the basement, where diesel fuel for the emergency generators was stored, was flooding with water.
Hurricane Sandy reached Monday night, the U.s. east coast and has left a trail of destruction caused. Among other things New York City has been hit hard. A number of data centres is from the air gone, including hoster Datagram. The company has a data center in Manhattan and saw Tuesday of the basement flooding with water. Datagram failed to include backup generators to turn on because the dieselvoorraden in the basement were saved. By the power outages are various blog sites from Gawker went offline, such as Gizmodo and Buzzfeed. It is still unclear when the water is pumped out and the hoster of the service can resume.
The company Internap struggled with similar problems and was insufficient diesel fuel from its emergency stocks to get are emergency generators to run. In addition, the company has its data center must be evacuated. Internap has, customers are advised to keep their websites or cloudservers itself to shut down.
Also hosting company Peer 1 Hosting has a lot of trouble with the floods. The company knows its servers are still in the air through its emergency generators by the dieselvoorraden still to fill. The water levels would have to decline. Other companies that are affected by Sandy are 111 8th Avenue and Atlantic Metro. On the Us east coast would continue, millions of people without power sit.