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From: Nancy Catherine Walker <>
Subject: [GenConnecticut-L] Message from Rootsweb.com
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 07:31:45 -0500

The following is part of a report from Brian Leverich, the owner,
financial support, and system administrator of RootsWeb. I have snipped
some of this, but if anyone would like the whole report I would be happy
to forward it.

As you probably know, I do not have to pay for the server space for the
for having this mailing list - it's free from RootsWeb. If you are a
supporter of RootsWeb, this is how your money is being spent. If you
haven't joined yet and would like to, you can do so either through the mail
(see Brian's signature) or via secure server using you credit card. More
details are available at
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html

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February was an incredible month: El Nino storms repeatedly
caused us to lose power, and I wound up having to 4-wheel-
drive off the mountain in a snowstorm to find and buy a
generator to keep RootsWeb online.

Because of our batteries and our generator, we were down only
minutes even though the power was off for days.

Also, Cyndi Howells' Website moved to RootsWeb right in the
middle of the storms and the USGenWeb query system needed more
CPU cycles and bandwidth, so we added a server and load
balanced our T1 connections to the Internet right in the
midst of all the snowfalls and power outages.

We had about 11% absolute growth during just the month of
February, but that's deceptively low because February is a
short month. Our actual *daily* load increased about 20%:

o 29,372,613 Web files (27,751,946 in Jan) from 2,488
Websites (2,400 in Jan).
- 8,602,112 were HTML pages (not images or cgi-bin)
(8,308,561 in Jan).
- 3,446,096 were cgi-bin database searches and such.
(3,574,701 in Jan).
- 17,248,967 were GIFs (15,850,655) or JPEGs (1,398,312)
(15,784,790 in Jan were GIFs (14,529,204) or JPEGs
(1,255,586).

o 644,950 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb
Archives and the ROOTS-L Library (618,762 in Jan).

o Thanks to a neat hack by Tim Pierce, we know we
shipped about 82,150,000 pieces of mail
(88,649,000 in Jan) pieces of mail to the
3,050+ (2,600 in Jan) mailing lists we host.

(The 82 million is probably low; we had to
archive a significant amount of mail before the
count because of a disk space crunch on one of
the mail servers ... )

o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles
to hosts on three continents (same as Jan).

o Approximately 505,361,000,000 bytes in total
(451,786,000,000 in Jan).

Your continued support is essential to us: just to keep up
with demand, in the next few weeks we're going to have to
upgrade the main Web server, upgrade the mail hub server,
and start preparing to add a third list server.

All that costs money.

And beyond those inescapable upgrades, we really want to be
building a kitty for buying genealogical datasets and bringing
more new services online for the whole community.

Thank you, 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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Nancy Catherine Walker
GenConnecticut List Manager

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