# sites down due to Sandy?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sites-down-due-to-sandy/639315
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 30, 2012, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sites-down-due-to-sandy/639315 "2012-10-30T12:15:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sites-down-due-to-sandy/639315/1 "2012-10-30T12:15:17Z")
io9’s server hasn’t responded since last night. I was wondering if this was storm related.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sites-down-due-to-sandy/639315/2 "2012-10-30T12:30:26Z")
I suspect so. After a bit of googling I see they are owned by [Gawker Media](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawker_Media), many or all of whose sites [have gone down from the storm](http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/29/3573790/gawker-buzzfeed-down-flooding-hurricane-sandy). I tried clicking the links to the various sites and got the same “connect to upstream server timedout” message from them, including io9.
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### Author:  [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sites-down-due-to-sandy/639315/3 "2012-10-30T13:25:19Z")
So far, all of the New York City webcams I’ve tried to connect to to see how things look have been down as well.
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### Author:  [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sites-down-due-to-sandy/639315/4 "2012-10-30T14:11:37Z")
Yeah, Gawker tweeted that they would be down.
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### Author:  [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sites-down-due-to-sandy/639315/5 "2012-10-30T17:57:51Z")
LifeHacker is down due to storm.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sites-down-due-to-sandy/639315/6 "2012-10-30T18:09:34Z")
> [@Flander](#):
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> LifeHacker is down due to storm.
I wish I knew how to keep a website up during a storm. I hear there’s a website with a lot of neat tricks like that to help you out in your daily tasks.
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### Author:  [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sites-down-due-to-sandy/639315/7 "2012-10-30T18:32:40Z")
It’s fair to ask why GawkerMedia doesn’t have redundant servers in another location, like the west coast. For a company their size with their traffic volume, the cost (and IT effort) is trivial.
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sites-down-due-to-sandy/639315/8 "2012-10-30T18:38:56Z")
I’ve been unable to log onto commercial NY websites today.