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| Sandy Darkness |
If you are wondering why The Huffington Post, Gawker, Buzzfeed, and
other popular media websites have been down the last few hours, blame it
on the storm.
Superstorm Sandy has flooded servers of New York-based Datagram Inc, shutting down several media websites it hosts.
A notice on Datagram’s website reads: “We are continuing to battle
flooding and fiber outages in downtown New York and Connecticut.”
Datagram also explains that “Verizon and other carriers in the area are
down as well” and that its generators fail to pump fuel because its
basement is flooded.
The 1000-mile-long storm, which is actually remnants of a hurricane
wrapped in a snowstorm, brought record flooding in northeastern United
States including New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
It also brought record-high snowfall over West Virginia and several
inland states. The storm’s effect is expected to be felt further
westward over the Great Lakes as well as on eastern Canada where Sandy
is expected to travel.
“Due to power outages caused by Superstorm Sandy, our own website is
experiencing technical difficulties,” said Huffington Post. Meanwhile,
all Gawker Media websites, including Gizmodo and Lifehacker, were down.
Buzzfeed, a website that publishes quirky viral content, was down
earlier but was brought back although with limited functionality.
“Elements of BuzzFeed’s site and many story pages are back online,
thanks to a Content Delivery Network, Akamai, which hosts the content at
servers distributed around the world,” Buzzfeed said in a post.
Source: NDTV
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