Greetings, I was a bit surprised by the answer to the question so my hope is that further clarification will help. The original question did specifically ask about Ancestry provisions in a manner that "assumed" a particular solution; namely backup power generators so it is understandable that the response only addressed the question. My "expectation" however was that Rootsweb had planned for any type of west coast disaster by having east coast, and perhaps even Canadian based, mirror image servers that automatically detect outages and notify operations to exercise alternative routing actions. IMNSHO mirrored servers are a much more complete, and actually less expensive alternative, to having massive power generators installed. So my hope is that the answer given is only a partial answer directed specifically to the question and is not actually representative of Rootsweb disaster planning and recovery. Cheers "Dr. Brian Leverich" wrote: > -- Your message was: (from ""W. David Samuelsen"") > > > Don't know of any other list where I can ask this question since > > it involve all aspects of Rootsweb. > > > > Does Rootsweb has the backup power generators to carry through > > in case of rolling blackouts reaching Pine Mountain as well as > > the other locations of Rootsweb's servers?? > > > > W. David Samuelsen > > ------------------ > > We have battery backups and redundant generators to cover Pine > Mountain. > > We have *huge* battery reserves in Bakersfield. > > In both cases our power feeds are protected by top-of-the-line S.L. > Waber power conditioners, which should prevent us from suffering any > damage due to transients as the power goes down and comes back up. > > I do not expect the rolling blackouts to have any impact at all on > RootsWeb. Cheers, B. > > -- > Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L > P.O. Box 6831, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6831 leverich@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > The only real-time collaboration tool that allows you and other family > members to create a FREE, password-protected family tree. > http://www.ancestry.com/oft/login.asp

Leverich's reply is exact what I expected to the immediate concern. Pine Mountain community is way up in the mountains and nested. http://www.frazmtn.com/pmcwebcam/last24hrs_pmc_mtpinos.html live camera showing the town. (I saved the url. A look tell you why) By the way Ancestry.com is located in Provo, Utah . As for mirroed site - I don't know, considering thousands of sites being maintained independently that can be instantly mirrored by Rootsweb. That's something the RW techs will have to answer. David "Jason M. Canon" wrote: > > Greetings, > > I was a bit surprised by the answer to the question so my hope is that further > clarification will help. The original question did specifically ask about > Ancestry provisions in a manner that "assumed" a particular solution; namely > backup power generators so it is understandable that the response only addressed > the question. My "expectation" however was that Rootsweb had planned for any > type of west coast disaster by having east coast, and perhaps even Canadian > based, mirror image servers that automatically detect outages and notify > operations to exercise alternative routing actions. IMNSHO mirrored servers are > a much more complete, and actually less expensive alternative, to having massive > power generators installed. So my hope is that the answer given is only a > partial answer directed specifically to the question and is not actually > representative of Rootsweb disaster planning and recovery. > > Cheers >