Last week RootsWeb bought a Cisco 4500M router, which will let us use up to 8 T1s at our main network operations center. This gives us room to grow and, perhaps more importantly, will enable is to get even more clever about working around problems out in The Net's core mesh. [ I'm not going to do the canonical beg and grovel for folks to consider becoming RootsWeb Members, but I will note in passing that buying the new router did put quite a dent in our budget ... ] Anyway, late Wednesday night we'll be installing the 4500 router. We'll also be replacing our old ethernet hubs with a hairy Bay Networks ethernet switch, which will enable us to bring more servers online and work around problems more rapidly. There will probably be a number of very brief interruptions as we cut over to the new router and switch, and there is the possibility of as much as a 2-3 hour down if we have any interesting problems. ### As many of you know, we tried to bring up a new search engine server two weeks ago but discovered it was prone to crashing when we placed a full production load on it. In the last two weeks we've built another server and made various adjustments on the unstable beast. Over the next few days we will be doing production tests on both the new boxes. During the tests, you may see the 1998 archives be available at some times and not available at others. Crashes may occur. In any case, please don't announce the new archives even if they are available online for several days. When we're sure that we have a new search engine server running well, we'll announce that fact to this audience and you can, in turn, announce it to your subscribers and users. ### Wish us luck with the upgrades, and please be patient as we get everything installed and tuned. 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