{"id":12,"date":"2012-11-29T00:08:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T00:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/db2.webservicereviews.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2013-07-03T00:11:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T00:11:42","slug":"hurricane-in-the-cloud-how-hurricane-sandy-impacted-web-hosting-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/29\/hurricane-in-the-cloud-how-hurricane-sandy-impacted-web-hosting-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane in the Cloud: How Hurricane Sandy Impacted Web Hosting Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought it would be really fun to create an infographic about the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the web hosting companies we track. I learned my infographic skills are optimistically rated: very poor.<\/p>\n

So here's the interesting stats and trends we saw occur during Hurricane Sandy:<\/strong><\/p>\n

418<\/strong> People Tweeted about Sandy and a web hosting company.<\/p>\n

119<\/strong> of those Tweets were talking about Intel's Sandy Bridge<\/strong> technology<\/p>\n

15<\/strong> People were concerned about their web hosting<\/p>\n

7<\/strong>\u00a0(\/15) of those people were worried about Amazon<\/strong><\/p>\n

23<\/strong> People Claimed to have issues related to Sandy<\/p>\n

8<\/strong> (\/23) of those complaints were directed at BlueHost<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Most Popular Sandy Tweets:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Unsure why Heroku is prepping for Sandy. I thought hurricanes were the strongest kind of cloud.\" -\u00a0@tenderlove<\/a>\u00a0(42 RTs)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"Linode HQ weathered #sandy only to lose power hours later, late last night. It runs our VoIP phones so no calls until we can work around.\" - \u00a0@linode<\/a>\u00a0(15 RTs)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"Laughing Squid founder @ScottBeale<\/a> is live tweeting post #Sandy recovery from Manhattan. Follow him updates: https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottBeale<\/a>\" - @LaughingSquid<\/a> (9 RTs)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some Angry\/Happy Tweets:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"@GoDaddy<\/a> UMADBRO?????? UMAD?!?!?!?!?!? I HOPE SANDY COMES AND DESTROYS ALL YOUR SERVERS.\" - @djdarrenmallett<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"With Gawker, HuffPo and others experiencing outages, Sandy is IRL the equivalent of GoDaddy hosting.\" -\u00a0@spydergrrl<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"wow how in the hell did @linode<\/a> have 100% uptime in Newark during #Sandy? that's some badass hosting right there.\" - @procdaddy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"Wow, so Jersey is getting HAMMERED by Hurricane Sandy right now, and yet my @linode<\/a> in Newark is still up. THAT'S service right there!\" - @bill_clark<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Other stories we found in the data:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heroku<\/strong>\u00a0released regions<\/a> to help deal with customers who might potentially be affected by Sandy.<\/p>\n

We saw BlueHost<\/strong> decided to offer<\/a> flexible payments to those affected by Sandy.<\/p>\n

Finally.<\/p>\n

For your entertainment.<\/p>\n

You can see my first ever attempt at creating an infographic (in the future, I will hire someone else to design these!)<\/p>\n

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