Hello; This is the message I have been waiting for, to show you another part of what ROOTSWEB does for us The one thing that most impresses me is the amount of mailing list we now have, over 3,000. Gad, I love this place!!! Sandra in Sacramento ******************** Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 17:35:30 -0800 (PST) To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com, usgenweb-all-l@rootsweb.com, rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com, listowners-announce@rootsweb.com cc: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Newsgroups: alt.genealogy,soc.genealogy.computing,soc.genealogy.misc Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Subject: RootsWeb in February -- 1,000,000+ Hits Per Day Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 17:26:45 -0800 From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> Resent-Message-ID: <"fH2nT.A.DMH.IKvH1"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <listowners-announce@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/39 X-Loop: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: listowners-announce-request@rootsweb.com 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). NOTE: |Thanks to a neat hack by Tim Pierce, we know we oooooooo|shipped about 82,150,000 pieces of mail oooooooo|(88,649,000 in Jan) pieces of mail to the oooooooo|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 Sandra [T.YLER] D.UNCAN purplevw@sl.net <ôçô> SURNAMES & MAILING LISTS CAN BE (ô¿ô) SEEN AT: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3577 PROUD SPONSOR OF ROOTSWEB AS OF 11 SEP 1997 & 5 JAN 1998 Support RootsWeb! Go "NOW" to: http://www.rootsweb.com