#Image bucket brigade generator

Squarespace acknowledges the effort is 'not sustainable' over the long haul. Hopefully our manual efforts, joined with the building, can see us through. 'Spirits are strong and everyone from Peer1, Fog Creek, and Squarespace is working together.' 'The building now has powerful pumps clearing out the basement, which we hope will expose the main pump lines - which would allow us fuel for days.

''We have 25 people stationed throughout the building to relay more fuel to the roof once it arrives,' Squarespace reported on its status blog. While the generators chugged on past that point, the company and its customers developed an alternate plan. Peer 1 initially planned for a 'controlled shutdown' at 10:45 a.m. Those pumps shut down yesterday when the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy flooded the basement levels of 75 Broad, rendering the pumps unusable. Strong arms and strong backs are replacing fuel pumps that normally bring diesel from tanks in the basement to the upper floors of the building, where the backup generators are providing emergency power to keep the servers online in the Peer 1 data center. It is a decidedly low-tech, brute-force solution to the challenges at 75 Broad, the hobbled data center building in Lower Manhattan.

#Image bucket brigade generator

(Photo via Squarespace)Ī determined team of employees of Peer 1 Hosting, blog host Squarespace and Fog Creek Software have formed a 'bucket brigade' to relay 5-gallon buckets of diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs at 75 Broad Street to refuel a generator providing emergency power to the Peer 1 data center.

Staff from Peer 1, Squarespace and Fog Creek Software have formed this unusual Internet bucket brigade.

Teams from Squarespace fill buckets with diesel fuel to haul them up 17 stories to the generator keeping the data center online.