Bill, I think I addressed this in another reply -- Jon emphasizes that it is not a scalable bandwidth or server issue. Dave P.S. Sorry to be responding to these somewhat haphazardly. I took last Friday off and have a bit of a backlog to work through. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Edgar [mailto:n3llr@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 12:02 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: ARRL Website Complaint.... I wonder if we had scalable bandwidth and servers at Rackspace or some other ISP, would this fix the slow website issues. It is my understanding that during heavy use periods, scalable service expands the amount of bandwidth (opens the pipeline more) to permit more users to use the site and permits more servers to be utilized during the heavy load periods. If we buy additional servers to bring this in-house, will scalable bandwidth and severs be available and utilized during peak load periods? - Bill -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Ahrens [mailto:cliff.ahrens@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 10:50 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: ARRL Website Complaint.... Given the number of complaints about the Web server response time, and the increased usage of the Web site and ARRL store during the holiday season, should staff consider a temporary increase of the amount of server space being rented in the Rackspace cloud. As Dave noted, the 2011 Plan recommended to the Board by staff and the A&F committee includes purchasing 4 in-house Web servers at an approximate cost of $6,000, with a projected implementation at the end of the 1st Qtr 2011. The increased rental cost at Rackspace would be a short-term fix, pending the move to in-house servers. And maybe that move could be expedited as well. Cliff K0CA