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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:12:20 -0800
From: Brian Leverich <leverich(a)rootsweb.com>
To: listowners(a)rootsweb.com, rootsweb-help(a)rootsweb.com,
STATE-COORD-L(a)rootsweb.com, archives-l(a)rootsweb.com
Cc: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich(a)rootsweb.com>
Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] The CGI-BIN Server is Born
Resent-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:05:53 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: STATE-COORD-L(a)rootsweb.com
Hi all -
I'd like to announce the birth of
cgi.rootsweb.com, a Pentium II 233
MHz machine with 256 MB of 10ns SDRAM, 4 GB of IDE ultraDMA system
disk, and a 9 GB Cheetah ultrawide ultrafast SCSI drive for user
programs.
This server rocks. (:
"cgi" is the production twin to the little "test" server. We plan
to be running mod_perl on "cgi"'s Apache server, so perl performance
should be very good for programs that have been designed to run in
that environment.
In the short run "cgi"'s primary users will be the Surname Helper
project, the KY query system project, and a major virtual domain
that is moving to RootsWeb.
In the long run, we'll be opening "test" and "cgi" to any
RootsWeb
Webmaster who wants to develop their own cgi-bin facilities. Please
be patient for a bit and don't ask me for help in using the box for
new projects, though, until after the query systems have settled in
and I've finished the other server upgrades I'm working on.
Members of the sysadmin team who need root should drop me a note and
make sure I have your fax/phone numbers, and the queries folks who
need user accounts should also contact me.
My next project is bringing up the new search engine server, which
will get the USGenWeb Archives and mailing list archives reindexed
and give Marc Nozell plenty of room to bring his HTML mailing list
archiver back on line.
After that, I'll be doing a major upgrade to the Web server.
Besides making the machine bigger and faster, this upgrade should
let us install Isearch on the server so Webmasters can build
efficient indexes for their Websites.
After that, I'll be doing a major upgrade to the mail hub, which is
just a little 486-133 and keeps getting swamped just trying to
handle the feeds to the big list servers.
After that, I'll probably be working through the big mail servers
and doing memory upgrades and those guys. They're all 256 MB
machines, but it looks like they'd be happier at 512 MB or even 1 GB.
No rest for the wicked, at least not for awhile yet. 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(a)rootsweb.com