NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy

Nerval's Lobster writes "Problems in New York's data centers persisted through Wednesday morning, with hosting companies and other facilities racing against time to keep generators humming as water was pumped out of their facility basements. The fight now is to keep those generators fueled while pumps clear the basement areas, allowing the standard backup generators to begin operating. It's also unclear whether the critical elements of infrastructure (power and communications) will both be up and running in time to restore services. The following is a list of some of the data centers and services in the area, and how they're faring." I'm responsible for a few servers at Peer1, and their efforts are interesting: "Peer1’s operations at 75 Broad are operating on sheer manpower: a bucket brigade. According to a blog post from Fog Creek Software, one of the clients at the building, about 30 customers are lifting buckets (or cans) of diesel fuel up 18 flights of stairs."

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Add to that, NYI...

[malakai]

At 100 Williams Street, http://www.nyistatus.com/
My server and connections have been up non stop.

I know it's cynical of me, but I find it a bit sad that we can better plan data centers then medical factilities.

I know all the colocation facilities I've been to in Manhattan have generators above the 6th floor ( sometimes in addition to generators in the basement). A few had them on the roof with some special setup that allows fuel to be flown by helicopter for worse case scenarios.

Status of datacenters affected

[Samuraid]

There's a detailed list of downed datacenters as well as a good discussion of status over at webhostingtalk: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1205042
Per the topic, the following locations are experiencing or have experienced outages:

• 75 Broad Street
• 33 Whitehall
• nLayer at 882 3rd Ave
• Voxel/Internap at 111 8th Avenue
• XO, nLayer, Cogent, Verizon, Sidera Networks and AT&T at 882 3rd Ave
• 121 Varick