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The Zone

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 12:17 am
by dutchalum01
First off, thank you for creating this board! I've been dying the past few months with nowhere to turn since the zone has been down. Anyone know what happened over there?


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Re: The Zone

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 11:46 am
by cactus
They claim they'll be back, but we got tired of waiting.

Re: The Zone

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:39 pm
by ProudofPride
CAA Zone is supposedly reopening this week.

CAAZone.com @CAAZone
Data migration from old to new servers is complete! 2 mil posts from over 10 years of CAA action. New site opens this week! #caahoops
https://twitter.com/CAAZone/status/504391393016819714

Re: The Zone

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:26 pm
by cactus
no offense but i am a sys admin and there should be no more than a couple of hours of downtime (where the board is in a read only state) to do something like that.

Re: The Zone

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 8:56 am
by stuball888
With Mason, ODU, VCU leaving the CAA and JMU now with their own board the "Zone" has lost about 75% of their hits on the board.It may not be profitable for these guys to run the board anymore.

Re: The Zone

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 8:25 pm
by joeg1
While we're talking about things with a former connection to Hofstra, congrats to Mo Cassara on his wedding day.

Re: The Zone

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:14 am
by ProudofPride
Looks like the new CaaZone is finally hereā€¦ not sure what's going on with the web address though. http://107.170.155.153/boards/

Re: The Zone

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:31 pm
by cactus
caazone.com is still down and the site is still only accessible via IP. i feel bad, those guys really need some assistance.

Re: The Zone

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 11:14 am
by Jojogunne
It's back.

Re: The Zone

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 9:01 am
by cactus
It's back, and the spambots seem to have found them. They seem to be having a major spam problem now.

Re: The Zone

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 11:21 am
by stuball888
Actually I think I will stick with the Hofstra board.

Re: The Zone

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:43 pm
by bobe13
Agree

Re: The Zone

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:07 pm
by PrideFan22
Looks like it's finally back up with no spam, but i'd much rather stay here

Re: The Zone

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:11 am
by ProudofPride
Message from ZoneAdminstrator in the general thread in the zone:

I can appreciate folks' frustrations of not having the site available for an extended period. Believe me, I hoped that wasn't going to be the case. However, we're now on our own server, for $100 less per month. It was essential for us to downsize - we had grown to a point while VCU/ODU/Mason were still part of the CAA - and without that traffic we had to scale down to a more affordable set up.

Now that the move is done, I know we've lost some folks. I intend to win them back and new fans with superior service and features that a free board doesn't necessarily provide. We will add new features every few weeks that will make a difference. Other sites spinning off of CAAZone has been happening for years, and we always viewed it as inevitable. I'm happy that fans are able to build boards for themselves, but I do feel that a central hub of fans from all schools will continue to have a place.

Please join us as we move forward into a new era of the 'Zone! Spread the word that we're back!

Re: The Zone

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:53 pm
by Jojogunne
I appreciate what they're trying to do at CAAZone, but they never responded to two emails I sent over the summer asking when the boards would be back. I'm staying here.

Re: The Zone

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:14 pm
by stuball888
I for the most part will do the same. Like I said in previous posts the loss of VCU,ODU and GMU fans plus JMU having their own board has gutted the fan base of CAA Zone.com

Re: The Zone

Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:05 am
by bobe13
I would also prefer to stay here

Re: The Zone

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:38 pm
by EvanJ
I'm going to post here because CAAZone doesn't have enough people.

Re: The Zone

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:25 pm
by bobe13
staying here as well