This is from this week's Rootsweb Review issue which is distributed freely from Rootsweb. All sponsors, donors, listowners get it already. Subscribers can get it by request (rootsweb-review-l@rootsweb.com) and subscribe in message text. It is sent out once a week. It is always filled with interesting information including this one below - (hey, those of you who contacted me in past - you know where your Rootsweb $$ went to!). NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB WHERE HAVE ALL THE ROOTSWEB ADMINS BEEN? RootsWeb users may have noticed that, for about the last six weeks, RootsWeb's system administrators have been hard to find and generally a bit wild-eyed and stressed when they appeared in public. The reason is that the load on our servers jumped immediately after Christmas. For example, mailing list traffic we handle jumped from about 119 million deliveries in November to about 154 million pieces in January. That's almost a 30% leap. Although we haven't run the Web statistics for January yet, we suspect Web traffic jumped a similar amount. Since December, to handle the load, RootsWeb has brought online: o A new and much faster main Web server. o A new FTP server. o A new and much faster GenConnect server. o A new and much faster Surname Helper server. o A new and much faster RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) and Obituary Daily Times server. o A new server for the FreeBMD British records project. o A new server for providing personalized search engines for the Webmasters of genealogical sites. It has been a Herculean task to bring all those machines online in just a few weeks, and we aren't through yet. In the next few weeks we need to: o Upgrade the "lists2" listserver's processor and memory (costs $2,000). o Build a new "lists3" listserver (costs $4,000). o Build a faster server to carry most of the load currently being handled by the "searches" search engine server (costs $12,000). o Add a fast "RAID" disk array to the GenConnect server (costs $6,000). We mention the costs because these needed upgrades and new servers currently are not funded. By making a financial contribution to RootsWeb, you can help us provide more mailing lists, more searchable data files, and more GenConnect boards for the whole community to use. For details about support levels/benefits and payment options, visit: <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html> or send e-mail to: <RW-info@rootsweb.com>. RootsWeb's address is: RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798. (Please include your e-mail address on all correspondence and checks.)