"Occupying the 10th floor of a downtown Big Easy office building, Zipa is a typical web hosting and co-location center, with one key difference: It's sitting smack dab in the middle of some of the worst devastation the United States has ever experienced," reports Wired News.
It may be the only blog currently both written and hosted inside New Orleans, and it's receiving nearly 3,000 visitors an hour.
A webcam streams images from inside the data center, showing haggard but smiling employees. Voice-over-IP telephones let stranded workers make telephone calls even when the rest of the city's phone service is severely overloaded. A photo gallery is filled with pictures uploaded by the dozen.
"We are still up and running," says Zipa's data center manager Michael Brunson, "We have people on site and they are doing well. Even if they need a bath."
Comment: Wired News's links don't work for me but I hope it's just overload (a mirror site would be a better idea). All our hearts and prayers go out to the people marooned (yes, even the prayers from atheists). And if anyone from the White House is reading this: Hey, guys, having seen the power of nature in New Orleans and in Asia, and our inability to do much about it, please could you get serious about global warming?
