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From: "Derick S. Hartshorn" <>
Subject: News from RootsWeb
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 07:46:21 -0400


If you have experienced problems with mail, archives or RootsWeb pages
lately, this news from headquarters may explain what has happened.

--Derick

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> If we're lucky, we may be able to give the appearance of fully
> normal operations by the end of the day (Wednesday).

Last night Karen and I finished replacing the failing drive in the
old server. It was fairly tricky surgery, because the old drive had
a mixture of OS, local executables, and user HTML pages on it and we
carefully separated those components onto separate disks.

We were down for about 7 hours while we reconfigured the server.

The good news is that the failing drive is now out of the machine,
and the disks are organized such that we can easily move them to a
newer and faster machine.

The bad news is that the old server is still overloaded. We had
hoped the new drives (which are much faster than the old drive)
would have helped reduce the load on the server, but we still have
capacity problems.

We will probably have to continue disabling server-side includes
during peak hours until we get the new server online. Sorry about
that. ):

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> The AOL/upstream problems affecting our listservers has delayed
> this. We will possibly cut over onto the new server on Friday, but
> we'll probably wait until after the weekend if the old server seems
> to be operating adequately.

We now expect to be bringing the new server online early next week.
The transition to the new server will require some downtime, but
probably no more than one or two hours.

The new server should provide us plenty of capacity and room for
growth. Am I ever looking forward to that! -B

--
Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/
P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798

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