Kansan server down

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Viewers trying to access the Kansan Web site over the next couple of days will have a hard time finding the news.

Ryan Berg, Buffalo Grove, Ill., senior and director of media convergence for www.kansan.com, said the server, which crashed on Thursday, is on but full of unnamed files. Kansan staff is mending the injured Internet page.

“We’re going to do everything we can to get news on ASAP,” Berg said.

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We’re going to do everything we can to get news on ASAP.

-Ryan Berg said.

Berg has to open each file on the Web site and re-enter several pieces of crucial data, such as what section the individual article belongs or whether it’s a file from the new or old version of the Kansan Web site.

He said the most recent stories would be on the Web site in about two days. Archived stories will be gradually added.

Dan Cox, director of the World Company Online Division, said a hard drive failure corrupted data on the Kansan’s server at the World Company server facility.

Story archives, photos and user profiles were lost in the crash.

The Kansan Web site was redesigned at the end of January. Berg said the server crash was unrelated to the redesign.

Berg is fixing the individual files while Natalie Ward, Leawood sophomore and Kansan web editor, reorganizes the Web site.

Ward spent eight hours reloading staff lists and story categories to the Web site. She said all registered users will have to re-register.

“We haven’t addressed the archive issue yet. We’re going from here and uploading current content onward,” she said.

Kansan staff writer Brian Lewis-Jones can be contacted at bljones@kansan.com.

— Edited by Katie Sullivan

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