Good News From the Server Recovery Team

Thank you Andy and Paul and others - and the folks at Dragon.com - for fixing the IPs and initiating loading the fic content onto the new server!

The front page on FA is normal again, with a note on the top explaining what's happening and sending people to the blog, which is all good. Fics are slowly coming back online and they should all be up by Thursday.

The Fic Submission Form is working again for submissions and if you're on the Queue Bypass list your fic will be auto-processed, but we won't be able to send fics back for editing until the mailserver is up and that might not be til early Friday. So start submitting but know that it might take more than ten days for the fic to get online (although we're going to try and clear the whole queue before DH comes out).

I'm off to breathe a giant sigh of relief now...

Server Recovery Update

Here's the latest on the fic recovery process:

All
the fics are still there, but unfortunately, we have to rebuild the server and that section of the site before they're accessible. You should be able to find many fics via Archive.org by clicking here. The review pages for all fics are still live and accessible via the Park.

This server also hosted our outgoing mail, and that's why you haven't received updates on thread subscriptions, new reviews, etc. That should be working by the end of this week.

We hope to reopen for new fic submissions for a few days before Book Seven is released, but if not, we will reopen for new submissions two or three days after the book comes out - the fic intakers need a chance to read the book first.

Of course, FictionAlley Park is still open for discussion, writing workshops, Book Seven theorizing and off topic chat here and you can enjoy listening to fanfic at our SpellCast podcast.

If you have any specific questions, please ask us in Suggestions & Questions or email the Help Desk at help @ fictionalley.org.

SpellCast Heads to LA; Server In the "Getting Fixed" Stage

We've been working closely with our server hosts over the last two days to get FictionAlley back online. It sounds like we can get all of our data back but it's likely that a day or two of fic submissions will be completely missing - we will know more when we actually are able to look over the data.

For now, we're pointing all the front pages on the site to this Blog, so you can keep tabs on the restoration process, and enjoy the coverage of the premiere in LA that we'll be providing over the next few days. Robert from SpellCast is already in LA and I'll be joining him tomorrow, along with SC's Venessa and Zorb. Let us know if you're going to be in the crowd at Mann's Chinese Theater on Sunday and we'll keep an eye out for you!

We hope to have the fics back online on Monday or Tuesday. For now, if you need a fic-fix, or want to discuss your theories about Book Seven or the sneak peeks about Order of the Phoenix: The Movie, visit FictionAlley Park.