-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Leverich
Date: Sunday, March 01, 1998 10:46 PM
Subject: RootsWeb in January -- 451,786,000,000 Bytes Served



>I guess this is a new first -- we're posting the January
>statistics after, in principle, we could have computed the
>February statistics.
>
>Oh well.  It's been *extremely* busy around here, dealing
>with the explosive growth and the many problems caused by
>the El Nino storms.
>
>The executive summary is that we had about 33% growth during
>just the month of January:
>
> o 27,751,946 Web files (20,835,802 in Dec) from 2,400
>   Websites (2,240 in Dec).
>   - 8,308,561 were HTML pages (not images or cgi-bin)
>     (5,903,137 in Dec).
>   - 3,574,701 were cgi-bin database searches and such.
>     (2,911,509 in Dec).
>   - 15,784,790 were GIFs (14,529,204) or JPEGs (1,255,586)
>     (11,849,905 in Dec were GIFs (10,902,627) or JPEGs
>            (947,279).
>
> o 618,762 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb
>   Archives and the ROOTS-L Library (472,838 in Dec).
>
> o Thanks to a neat hack by Tim Pierce, we know we
>   shipped about 88,649,000 pieces of mail to the
>   2,600+ (2,300 in Dec) mailing lists we host.
>
> o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles
>   to hosts on three continents (same as Dec).
>
> o Approximately 451,786,000,000 bytes in total
>   (321,408,000,000 in Dec).
>
>Besides adding hundreds of new Websites and mailing lists in
>January, we also added new servers and a third and fourth T1
>connection to the Internet.  (A T1 is about 50 times faster
>than a standard modem.)  These additions have significantly
>increased our costs of operation, but they were essential if
>we were to continue to properly support the Internet
>genealogical community.
>
>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:
> https://sites.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html
>
>*** You can become a Member easily using your credit card
>    and our new secure server. ***
>
>Now is a particularly good time for folks to join, because we
>have had a huge increase in utilization since Christmas.  Our
>bandwidth rate has jumped from 321 to 451 gigabytes/month, and
>we're having to do numerous upgrades to our servers to support
>the load.  Your membership can help our capacity keep up with
>the demands of the Internet genealogical community.
>
>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       https://sites.rootsweb.com/
>P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798
>

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