>Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 19:06:51 -0700 (PDT) >Old-To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com, usgenweb-all-l@rootsweb.com, > rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com, listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Old-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 July -- 50,000,000 Hits and 100,000,000 E-mails >Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 18:56:09 -0700 >From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> >To: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <listowners-announce@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/53 >X-Loop: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: listowners-announce-request@rootsweb.com > > >In July, RootsWeb experienced one of its largest single-month >increases in load with folks using many of our services 25-33% >more than in June. > >We're not quite sure why that happened, but we speculate it's >because we've been adding new features and upgrading our servers >as fast as contributions allow. We also suspect that the new >RootsWeb Review e-zine may be helping folks find new parts of >RootsWeb. > >Here are the detailed statistics on our July operations: > > o 2,975 independently-Webmastered Websites are hosted > by RootsWeb. > > o 50,245,222 total Web hits: > - 13,608,736 were HTML pages. > - 6,879,675 were cgi-bin database searches and such. > - 29,568,584 were graphics (gifs, jpegs, etc). > > o 995,249 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb > Archives and the ROOTS-L Library. > > o 3,967 independently-listowned mailing lists are > hosted by RootsWeb. > > o Thanks to a neat hack by Tim Pierce, we know we > shipped 99,934,614 pieces of e-mail to our mailing > lists. > > o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles > to hosts on three continents. > > o Approximately 830,304,000,000 bytes in total. > >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. > >Also, we would like to publicly thank Palladium Interactive, >publishers of the superb Ultimate Family Tree software, for >their support of RootsWeb: > http://www.palladium.net/ > >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 >