Hello, my friends, > > I know I cannot get this message out to everyone who needs to know, but I > will do my best, with your patience and forwarding help. Also, please > forgive me for any redundant news flashes you may receive on this note. > > Brian Leverich is having power outage problems at Rootsweb and we are having > Sprintlink outage problems at USRoots, USGenWeb, and USIGS. A major link in > the network feeding those servers went down early last evening, but we were > not able to confirm the severity of the problem until this morning. The > severity is such, we are told, that they will be down for a couple of days. > For that, I sincerely apologize to all who are inconvenienced by this sudden > turn of events. > > The good news is that we are using this down time to upgrade our hardware > and our connection. When we come back on line (maybe tomorrow, but it could > be as late as Thursday afternoon), we will have more internal processing > memory (RAM) and we will be connected directly to the backbone on a full T-1 > line. We are, however, making a change in our IP addresses, so there will a > several-hour slow start, until the InterNIC databases are fully updated with > those new addresses. > > Again, thank you for your patience and understanding. Life will be better > very soon--I keep telling myself that and I truly believe it to be true. If > you know someone who needs this information, but who may not be included in > this mass-broadcast, please do them a favor and forward this message. > > I will keep you posted with the late breaking news, as it comes in. Keep > smiling everyone and keep up the good work, > > Jerry E Dill, CPA > Sysadmin & Co-owner > USRoots.Com > 811 Terry Drive > Emmett, ID 83617-3170 > http://www.usroots.com > [email protected] or [email protected] in times like these. > ICQ UIN 3711901 > > Sysadmin > USGenWeb.Com > http://www.usgenweb.com > > Treasurer and Sysadmin - > United States Internet Genealogical Society