Everyone -- as you'll read below Brian and Karen are doing everything possible to keep the system going while making the changes. Don't worry so about your counters and update problems - they are being disabled from time to time to allow us and visitors access to our actual pages during prime time and while they work on the system. I'd prefer the visitor actually be able to get to the pages - wouldn't you? Marti >Brian Leverich wrote: > -- Your message was: (from "Brian Leverich") > > > We obviously still have stability problems on the old Web server. > > I'm in the process of replacing all the adapter boards, with > > especial prejudice concerning the SCSI disk controller. > > > > Regardless of whether I can get the old server to stay up, we'll > > have the new server online within the next couple of days. That > > should fix the problem in a permanent sense. -B > > ------------------ > > The new server first booted on Friday night, and after working on it > all day Saturday we attempted to bring it online Saturday night when > the old server crashed. > > And we failed. > > Failed because it turned out we had to do an OS upgrade on the new > server to handle some of its hardware. > > So last night we did some additional tunes on the old server, and > we're still limping on it. Server-side includes are still disabled. > > Today I've done the OS upgrade on the new server, and everything > seems to be working great. Barring crashes of the old server, we > will do a planned upgrade to the new server tomorrow (Monday) > morning. > > After that you can expect some anomalies in our operations, because > major OS upgrades always introduce some interesting bugs. > Nonetheless, we expect to be returning to normal operations by > tomorrow evening. > > BTW, folks may find it easier to FTP to RootsWeb after the upgrade. > While I was configuring the OS kernel, I found a parameter setting > that might have been negatively affecting how some FTP clients > interact with RootsWeb. > > Anyway, sorry for the problems. The old server ran rock solid for > nine months and then, all of the sudden, it seems to have developed > a lot of personality. I expect some component besides the disk I > pulled is failing -- I'll fault isolate the problem after the > machine is offline. -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