On behalf of Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc., who operates the e-gold website, I'd like to apologize to e-gold Users for the recent degradation in e-gold website response times. By way of explanation: * e-gold usage is undergoing even more rapid growth than we had anticipated, crossing the million hits/day boundary considerably sooner than estimated. Traffic this month is approximately *double* that of last month, causing us to rethink our "conservative" 30% per month growth projections. * One of the inbound connections upstream of e-gold was witness to a syn flood denial of service attack starting on Friday night around 6pm. Although not directed specifically at any e-gold machines, it did slow down all responses to and from the site until it was dropped Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, the alarms G&SR personnel raised did not elicit a prompt reaction from the engineers responsible to deal with this problem. But enough excuses, you may be saying, what is being doing about it? * Capital resources have been authorized for additional network infrastructure upgrades. Load balancers and SSL accelerators are likely entries on the shopping list. * Web server hardware upgrades will be coming online in the near term. * Bandwidth upgrades have been shifted from high priority to highest priority. If e-gold requires bigger pipes to keep up with the new loads, then it shall be so. However... * We will *not* compromise data integrity for a quick fix. Again, please accept our apologies for the occasional turbulence you may experience on this journey to where no electronic currency has gone before. And, as always... Thank you for using e-gold. Reid Jackson Managing Director Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc. --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
