Good morning from snowy CT where we will likely be seeing a total of 2" to 4" of the white stuff today. The good news is that it's likely to melt away before mid-week. I just wanted to pass along the following note from IT Manager Michael Keane, K1MK, about the performance of LoTW this weekend and the reasons why that was noteworthy. Also, please note the final paragraph in the message. We will be announcing jointly with CQ in about a half an hour, that support for CQ's WAZ award will be available beginning today. Chairman Widin and the members of the LoTW Study Group should be commended on their efforts over the past several years which got us to this point. 73, Barry J. Shelley, N1VXY Chief Executive Officer ARRL, Inc. The national association for Amateur Radio (860) 594-0212 www.arrl.org -----Original Message----- From: Keane, Michael, K1MK Sent: Monday, April 02, 2018 8:31 AM To: lotw-comm <lotw-comm@reflector.arrl.org> Cc: Shelley, Barry, N1VXY (CEO) <bshelley@arrl.org> Subject: LoTW Happenings Had a very special Easter 2018 on LoTW yesterday: Z60A (Kosovo -- new DXCC entity) uploaded their logs to LoTW finishing around 0800Z (4AM EDT) Sunday morning We saw a HUGE spike in activity as the word spread and everyone came looking for their Easter eggs (confirmations). Load was hitting 250 on the web server at times with that many simultaneous page requests and downloads! (Normal load is typically 2 - 4) Site did not crash under 50x - 100x loading, although response times were noticeably slow. Monitoring by Uptime Robot registered a single minute of downtime due to all of the congestion and loading We managed to accept 250+ DXCC applications over the weekend, Don't know if that is some kind of record for LoTW but at least not all of the site visits were by window shoppers Today's news for any committee members who are not involved in the beta test or on ODV is that we will be making the joint public announcement along with CQ of the general availability of support for the CQ WAZ award in LoTW @10AM this morning (Monday 02 April 2018). Expect another busy day... 73, Mike K1MK -- Michael Keane, K1MK IT Manager ARRL, The National Association for Amateur Radio™ 225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111-1494 USA Telephone: (860) 594-0285 email: mkeane@arrl.org