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Posted November 1, 2012, 10:28 am
Hurricane Sandy washed out servers, knocked down major websites
James Baniagua, with the IT department of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), removes payroll computers from company headquarters which is located in a vulnerable part of New York October 28, 2012. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)
By Adrienne LaFrance
Digital First Media
NEW YORK — Here’s a call you never want to get: Your website is down because its servers are flooded in five feet of water.
As Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York City, the storm’s destruction flickered across the digital world. Flooding to a Datagram’s data center in lower Manhattan dismantled a cluster of high-profile news and culture sites it hosts like the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, Jezebel and Gawker.