This is interesting - genealogy is more than alive and well in the cyber-era. Are our ancestors beaming or shuddering? Ruby _________________________ >Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 13:12:36 -0700 >From: Brian Leverich <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/51 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > > >June was a hectic month at RootsWeb because we significantly >upgraded our main Web server, at the cost of: > o A lot of money > o Several downs of the server > o Lots of sleep missed, vats of coffee consumed > and several stomach linings destroyed > >We also brought the new homepages.rootsweb.com server online, >which will provide home pages for individual genealogists >once we're satisfied with its operation. > >The executive summary is that RootsWeb had more than 20% >absolute growth in the last four months, but that's >deceptively low because of the downtime while we upgraded >the main server. > >Here are the detailed statistics on our June operations: > > o 35,930,194 total Web hits: > - 10,166,861 were HTML pages. > - 6,010,657 were cgi-bin database searches and such. > - 19,514,782 were graphics (gifs, jpegs, etc). > > o 779,280 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb > Archives and the ROOTS-L Library. > > o Thanks to a neat hack by Tim Pierce, we know we > shipped more than 77,000,000 pieces of e-mail to > our mailing lists. > > (The 77 million is actually much too low; we had > to archive a significant amount of mail before the > count because of a disk space crunch on one of > the mail servers ... ) > > o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles > to hosts on three continents. > > o Approximately 660,960,000,000 bytes in total. > >As always, RootsWeb remains supported by user contributions. >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. Right now, we could be hosting many >more Websites and mailing lists as well as providing many >further services to the community, if only we had the resources >to do so. > >Also, we would like to publicly thank Palladium Interactive, >publishers of the superb Ultimate Family Tree software, for >their 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] > > >