July 17, 1998 - ONElist Upgrade Update

From: <admin@onelist.com>
Date: Fri Jul 17, 1998 8:23am
Subject: ONElist Upgrade Update

Hello,

We are continuing the system-wide upgrade of ONElist. Earlier this week we completed upgrades that doubled our email delivery capacity. Email should no longer be delayed before delivery. In about two weeks we will be doubling email capacity again to ensure that we have plenty of room to grow.

Next up on the upgrade schedule is the ONElist web site. The first upgrade to that will occur late next week. Another upgrade will occur about a week after that. That will signal the completion of the
upgrades. These two upgrades will require service interruptions; we will send out notices detailing this as the time approaches.

We thank you for your patience during our upgrades. We know there have been a few glitches, an unfortunate side-effect of large system changes like this.

For the curious, our upgrades mean that ONElist is now a distributed, scalable system. Which is tech speak meaning that we will be able to increase our capacity easily in the future. We are using a Sun Microsystems Enterprise Server, a redundant fault-tolerant disk array, an Oracle database system, and several other high power workstations.

Thanks for using ONElist.

The ONElist Team