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Arenafan Fully Functional

Kevin Sheller
Saturday June 1, 2002


After almost a week of down time and limited operational capacity, Arenafan is online and mostly functional.

Below is the status of sections that were closed Friday and Saturday:

  • Player statistics, transactions, and team statistics for the month of May are back.
  • Fantasy will resume as normal after missing week seven.
  • Pick’em will resume as normal after missing week seven.
  • Message Boards are back online.
  • Power Poll is back online.
  • User signups during the month of May are now re-activated.
  • Mailing Lists are operational.

    Email services are not completely restored.

  • aflfans.com email accounts are still inoperable. Waiting for repair.
  • arenafan.net email addresses are inoperable. Waiting for repair.

    When Arenafan’s web hosting service, Versehost, suffered a hardware failure on Monday, May 27, Arenafan and a number of other websites and webhosts experienced a complete blackout. Email services, staff access, and public access were completely lost. This included the Arenafan database, web pages, mailing lists, and aflfans.com email forwarding.

    A great lesson was learned. Backup automation and quick-recovery methods are already in place and more are planned to minimize downtime in the event of a future disaster.

    Thanks to all of our users for your support during this difficult time. We appreciate your patience.

    It feels good to be back.


     
    Kevin Sheller ia founder of Arenafan Online and was the principal owner until 2004. Kevin graduated from the University of Akron with a degree in technical writing, and has been a member of the Arena Football Internet community since 1993. He has worked as a professional web programmer and is also the executive producer for a computer/video game company. The most recent Xbox title to his credit is called Hunter: The Reckoning.
  • The opinions expressed in the article above are only those of the writer, and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts, opinions, or official stance of ArenaFan Online or its staff, or the Arena Football League, or any AFL or af2 teams.
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