Dear listmembers, The only solicitation I do on the lists I manage is that about once a year I ask that, if you can, you send a dollar or two to Rootsweb. For you who have been subscribers for a long time and remember the Maiser demise--these are the folks who picked up the pieces and got the lists going again, at no charge. And everyone should know that if it weren't for the generosity of Rootsweb the lists that receive this message probably wouldn't be in existence. "Rootsweb" is actually a husband-wife team (along with a couple of helpers) who have voluntarily taken on (as second "jobs") the operation of this now huge system. Much of the equipment that we depend on has been purchased with their own money. They have stayed up nights "watching" monitors and servers to protect against outages and spam infestations. They charge nothing to you to subscribe to these lists, but that does not mean it is "free." Everything they so freely share costs money. Read their latest report to listowners below, get an idea of some of what they do, and please support them if you can. Even a couple of dollars from a large number of people will help. If you cannot support them at this time, please keep them in your thoughts for the future. There are many calls on our finances, but for us researchers, this is a very worthwhile one. Thank you for reading. Judy >Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 17:33:45 -0800 (PST) >To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected] >cc: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <[email protected]> >Newsgroups: alt.genealogy,soc.genealogy.computing,soc.genealogy.misc >Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <[email protected]> >Subject: RootsWeb in February -- 1,000,000+ Hits Per Day >Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 17:26:45 -0800 >From: Brian Leverich <[email protected]> >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/39 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > > >We're doing better than last month -- at least RootsWeb's >posting the February statistics before the end of March. (: > >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. > >The executive summary is that 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). > >As always, RootsWeb remains supported by user contributions. >Folks who would like to become a RootsWeb Member or Sponsor >(the cost is very modest) are invited to visit: > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >*** You can become a Member easily using your credit card > and our new secure server. *** > >Support from the Internet genealogical community is *crucial* >to RootsWeb's operation. Right now, we could be hosting many >more Websites and mailing lists as well as providing many >further services to the community, if only we had the resources >to do so. > >Thanks to everyone who participates in RootsWeb -- clearly folks >are continuing to exchanging a great deal of information! -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 [email protected] > > > Judy Marshall Arnold - [email protected] Judy's Place - http://www.flash.net/~judyad/