Thought some of you might be interested in this: -----Original Message----- From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, March 29, 1998 5:30 PM Subject: RootsWeb in February -- 1,000,000+ Hits Per Day > >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 leverich@rootsweb.com >