Below is a message from Dr Brian Leverich, who with his wife, Karen Isaacson, own and operate Rootsweb Data Cooperative. Rootsweb supplies without charge web space for most of the USGenWeb county pages as well as most of the mailing lists. It is supported entirely by members and sponsors. If you would like to subscribe and help out, please see the message below. Thanks --------<snip>--------------------------------------------------- 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] ----------<snip>------------------------------------------------ -- John E Cain; 4601 Concord Drive; Garland, TX 75042 http://www.rootsweb.com/~msamite/index.htm -----Amite County MS http://www.rootsweb.com/~jecain/index.htm ----Cain/Ware list and My Website.