Not everyone’s data centers were ready for Hurricane Sandy. Several major media sites — Buzzfeed, Gawker, Huffington Post — took major hits early Monday evening eastern time. The problems were all attributed to massive storm, which made landfall near Atlantic City, N.J. at around 8 p.m. local time.
Gawker is temporarily down because the 57th Street Crane just flooded our servers with sea foam, or something. Back with you shortly.—
(@Gawker) October 29, 2012
Due to #Sandy we're experiencing technical difficulties and are working to be back up as soon as possible.—
Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) October 29, 2012
Pushing out stuff through Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr while we resolve our site issues, you guys! Follow and like us.—
(@BuzzFeed) October 30, 2012
BuzzFeed and Gawker are down. You may experience an unfamiliar emotional reaction to events. This is known as earnestness and should pass.—
(@pourmecoffee) October 29, 2012
Daily Kos servers being powered by generators.—
Markos Moulitsas (@markos) October 29, 2012
To put the media outages into perspective, more than 3 million people in the storm’s path have no power, according to The Weather Channel’s Hurricane Central.
Stay tuned for updates.
