I thought the some of the list members might be interested in what Rootsweb has been doing for the genealogical community and what we can do for Rootsweb. Please Remember RootsWeb is Free but, if you can help it would be appreciated. Dave Wells dwells@zekes.com WB7ONJ Listowner: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com Listowner: HOWE-L@rootsweb.com Proud RootsWeb Sponsor Page by Dave -----Web Page Design http://www.zekes.com/~dwells/dave.htm > Sorry about the tardiest report to date -- we've been so busy that > we just didn't have the time to compile our statistics for October > and November. > > The executive summary is that we had about a 55% growth over in > just the three months from September to December: > > o 20,835,802 Web files (14,687,507 in Sept) from 2,240 > Websites (1,891 in Sept). > - 5,903,137 were HTML pages (not images or cgi-bin) > (4,462,656 in Sept). > - 2,911,509 were cgi-bin database searches and such. > (1,777,881 in Sept). > - 11,849,905 were GIFs (10,902,627) or JPEGs (947,279) > (8,317,545 in Sept were GIFs (7,560,589) or JPEGs > (756,956). > > o 472,838 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb Archives > and the ROOTS-L Library (427,565 in Sept). > > o We've lost count of how much mail we're shipping to > the 2,300+ (1,900 in Sept) mailing lists we host, but > last month it was in the neighborhood of 90,000,000 > million pieces. > > o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles > to hosts on three continents (same as Sept). > > o Approximately 321,408,000,000 bytes in total > (207,360,000,000 in Sept). > > Besides adding hundreds of new Websites and mailing lists, in > the last three months RootsWeb has added search engines for > the USGenWeb Archives and all 4 *gigabytes* of messages in > the archives of our surname and regional mailing lists. > > Also in the last three months, RootsWeb has added several 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 521 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 leverich@rootsweb.com >