What Happens When a Hurricane Hits the Web

This post details Cloudflare's infrastructure resilience during Hurricane Sandy, including the redundancy of its data centers (EWR, IAD), backup power systems (batteries, generators), and the network's ability to reroute traffic around failures like the AC-2 undersea cable incident. It also discusses the 'Always Online' functionality serving static versions of sites when origin servers were down and observations on traffic patterns during the storm.