Latest statistics from RootsWeb Dave Wells dwells@zekes.com WB7ONJ Listowner: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com Listowner: HOWE-L@rootsweb.com Proud RootsWeb Sponsor > 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 leverich@rootsweb.com >