Come On Irene: Surviving a Hurricane

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This post details the specific preparations made at the Ashburn, VA data center for Hurricane Irene, including generator testing, staff availability, emergency supplies, and physical weatherproofing. More importantly, it reinforces Cloudflare's core architectural design for resilience, emphasizing that the system is built to withstand entire data center outages without service interruption due to traffic automatically rerouting to other global locations. It also reassures users that their sites will remain online even if their hosting provider is affected by the storm, and that Cloudflare will monitor their sites.