Hi group - Considering the situation at RootsWeb now might be a perfect time to remind everyone how they are funded and that the need for new/better equipment never ends... http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html to learn about becoming a RootsWeb member/sponsor. They more $ they receive the more equipment he can buy and the better our sites hosted by RootsWeb can become. >Brian Leverich wrote: > > The good news is that the failing drive is now out of the machine, > > and the disks are organized such that we can easily move them to a > > newer and faster machine. > > > > The bad news is that the old server is still overloaded. We had > > hoped the new drives (which are much faster than the old drive) > > would have helped reduce the load on the server, but we still have > > capacity problems. > > 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 > > -- > 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