>Resent-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:04:56 -0800 (PST) >To: [email protected] >cc: [email protected], "Dr. Brian Leverich" <[email protected]> >Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <[email protected]> >Subject: Downtime for Server Upgrades >Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:06:21 -0800 >From: Brian Leverich <[email protected]> >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/31 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > > > >Hi all - > >As many of you know, yesterday RootsWeb moved our main Web server >onto a new pair of load-balanced T1 connections to The Net's core >mesh, so we now have a total of 4 T1s' worth of outbound bandwidth. > >That should last us awhile. > >The next upgrade we plan is to double the memory in the main list >server (lists.rootsweb.com) to 512 MB of DRAM. To accomplish that, >we'll need to take the box entirely offline for 2-3 hours and there >may be some brief downs after that while we tune things up. > >The downs will occur during the next 48 hours, and possibly as early >as this afternoon if all goes well. > >After the main memory in the list server is upgraded, the next box >we'll be upgrading is the search engine server. The new search >engine server will have a gigabyte of DRAM and 45 GB of very high- >speed RAID-5 disk storage. > >When the search engine upgrades are complete, we'll reindex the list >archives, reindex the USGenWeb archives, give Marc Nozell all the >space he'll ever need for the list archiver (:, and set up scheduled >reindexing so the list and USGenWeb Archives searches stay fairly >close to current. > >As always, I'd like to express RootsWeb's appreciation for your >support. With a gigabyte of memory costing $3,500 and a RAID-5 >array costing $7,500, we couldn't be doing all this without the >support of RootsWeb's Members, Sponsors, and Donors. Cheers, 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] >