I thought everyone might want to know what's going on at RootsWeb. Jerry W. Murphy [email protected] Listowner: [email protected] Listowner: [email protected] Listowner: [email protected] Listowner: [email protected] Listowner: [email protected] Wayne County, Tennessee Web Page: http://www.netease.net/wayne Wayne County Computer Club: http://www.netease.net/waccc -----Original Message----- From: Brian Leverich <[email protected]> Newsgroups: alt.genealogy,soc.genealogy.computing,soc.genealogy.misc To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 6:02 PM Subject: RootsWeb in August -- 57,000,000 Hits and 103,000,000 E-mails > >In August, use of RootsWeb grew on average about 15%. While >we're more than pleased by our growth, it *is* forcing us to >upgrade our servers and increase our bandwidth, which in turn >severely strains our limited financial resources. > >If you'd like to help RootsWeb grow, please consider becoming >a RootsWeb Member or Sponsor. Information on how to do that >follows the statistics. > >Here are the detailed statistics on our August operations: > > o 3,078 independently-authored Websites are hosted > by RootsWeb. > > o 57,294,189 total Web hits: > - 15,545,371 were HTML pages. > - 8,116,870 were cgi-bin database searches and such. > - 33,435,089 were graphics (gifs, jpegs, etc). > > o 1,161,830 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb > Archives and the ROOTS-L Library. > > o 4,186 independently-operated mailing lists are > hosted by RootsWeb. > > o We shipped 103,079,174 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 We shipped approximately 926,726,400,000 bytes > in total (next month we may break 1 Terabyte!). > >RootsWeb remains supported primarily by our users -- your >contributions keep us alive. 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. The continuing growth in use has >led to both our main Web server and our main list server >being pretty much maxed out. Contributions that we can >employ to upgrade our servers are essential for us to be able >to continue bringing more genealogical Websites and mailing >lists online. > >Also, we would like to publicly thank Palladium Interactive, >publishers of the superb Ultimate Family Tree software, for >their generous 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 [email protected] >