Storm knocks down some websites, but most stay online


UP AGAIN: The Buzzfeed site went down due to the power and flooding problems at one of the datacentres in New York.

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK : Despite outages at a few well-known websites and ripple effects that occasionally slowed communications around the country, the Internet came through the massive storm that swamped New York and New Jersey with relatively minor problems.

Built for resiliency and buttressed by the adoption of cloud computing, the Internet functioned largely as it was supposed to, industry experts said, routing around major disruptions in one of its central network locations, New York City.

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