Hi fellow Bottom hunters. I just received a note for the fellow who provides a great part of Genealogy on the Web free of Charge And this is part of what he is doing. This is not a pressure solicitation but more of a let your conscience be your guide. Any Item with Rootsweb in the title is part of this system and we all reap the benefits of DR. Brian's labors. I might add that if you do contribute $25.00 or more you will be come eligible to receive period Email giving you information on surname that your are researching from all sources on Rootsweb that have information on this surname and then new information as it occurs but in a digest form. Thanks for you time. And thanks to Dr. Brian Leverich who's address is at the bottom of this Email. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> To: rootsweb-members@rootsweb.com <rootsweb-members@rootsweb.com> Cc: Dr. Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, March 29, 1998 6:31 PM Subject: RootsWeb in February -- 1,000,000+ Hits Per Day > >This note is going to tell you that RootsWeb set a new >record level of service to the genealogical community last >month, but a more important message that I'd like to convey >first is just how important your support has been. > > RootsWeb wouldn't be here without you. > >In February, without your support we couldn't have purchased >a generator to keep the servers up during the El Nino storms, >a new search engine server for the USGenWeb and mailing list >archives, and a new server to host Cyndi Howells' Website >and the USGenWeb query systems. > >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. > >If you can spread the word and help us find more Members, >Sponsors, and Donors, you'll be helping us keep up with demand >and bring new data and services online. > > > *** AND NOW FOR THE REPORT *** > > >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). > >And that's what RootsWeb did in February. Let me thank you once >again for supporting RootsWeb -- none of this would be available >to the community without your help, and your continuing support >can help us grow and provide even more service to the 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 leverich@rootsweb.com > >