Resent-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:07:45 -0800 (PST) To: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com cc: archives-l@rootsweb.com, "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Subject: Downtime for Server Upgrades Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:06:21 -0800 From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> Resent-Message-ID: <"sCVrh.A.l8.V_9t0"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <listowners-announce@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/31 X-Loop: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: listowners-announce-request@rootsweb.com Hi all - As many of you know, yesterday RootsWeb moved our main Web server onto a new pair of load-balanced T1 connections to The Net's core mesh, so we now have a total of 4 T1s' worth of outbound bandwidth. That should last us awhile. The next upgrade we plan is to double the memory in the main list server (lists.rootsweb.com) to 512 MB of DRAM. To accomplish that, we'll need to take the box entirely offline for 2-3 hours and there may be some brief downs after that while we tune things up. The downs will occur during the next 48 hours, and possibly as early as this afternoon if all goes well. After the main memory in the list server is upgraded, the next box we'll be upgrading is the search engine server. The new search engine server will have a gigabyte of DRAM and 45 GB of very high- speed RAID-5 disk storage. When the search engine upgrades are complete, we'll reindex the list archives, reindex the USGenWeb archives, give Marc Nozell all the space he'll ever need for the list archiver (:, and set up scheduled reindexing so the list and USGenWeb Archives searches stay fairly close to current. As always, I'd like to express RootsWeb's appreciation for your support. With a gigabyte of memory costing $3,500 and a RAID-5 array costing $7,500, we couldn't be doing all this without the support of RootsWeb's Members, Sponsors, and Donors. Cheers, 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