Carole Rohrings, CPA [email protected] Researching Chapman, Cronk, Curcie, Delamarre, Drake, Hayhurst, Himes, Jennings, Kearns, Kuykendall, Mather, Post, St Johns, St Louis, Thrush, Wheeler Listowner also of Sisters and Love USGenWeb coordinator for Sutter County in California -----Original Message----- From: Brian Leverich <[email protected]> Newsgroups: alt.genealogy,soc.genealogy.computing,soc.genealogy.misc To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: Dr. Brian Leverich <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, March 01, 1998 7:43 PM Subject: RootsWeb in January -- 451,786,000,000 Bytes Served > >I guess this is a new first -- we're posting the January >statistics after, in principle, we could have computed the >February statistics. > >Oh well. It's been *extremely* busy around here, dealing >with the explosive growth and the many problems caused by >the El Nino storms. > >The executive summary is that we had about 33% growth during >just the month of January: > > o 27,751,946 Web files (20,835,802 in Dec) from 2,400 > Websites (2,240 in Dec). > - 8,308,561 were HTML pages (not images or cgi-bin) > (5,903,137 in Dec). > - 3,574,701 were cgi-bin database searches and such. > (2,911,509 in Dec). > - 15,784,790 were GIFs (14,529,204) or JPEGs (1,255,586) > (11,849,905 in Dec were GIFs (10,902,627) or JPEGs > (947,279). > > o 618,762 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb > Archives and the ROOTS-L Library (472,838 in Dec). > > o Thanks to a neat hack by Tim Pierce, we know we > shipped about 88,649,000 pieces of mail to the > 2,600+ (2,300 in Dec) mailing lists we host. > > o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles > to hosts on three continents (same as Dec). > > o Approximately 451,786,000,000 bytes in total > (321,408,000,000 in Dec). > >Besides adding hundreds of new Websites and mailing lists in >January, we also added new servers and a third and fourth T1 >connection to the Internet. (A T1 is about 50 times faster >than a standard modem.) These additions have significantly >increased our costs of operation, but they were essential if >we were to continue to properly support the Internet >genealogical community. > >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. *** > >Now is a particularly good time for folks to join, because we >have had a huge increase in utilization since Christmas. Our >bandwidth rate has jumped from 321 to 451 gigabytes/month, and >we're having to do numerous upgrades to our servers to support >the load. Your membership can help our capacity keep up with >the demands of the Internet genealogical community. > >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] >