Dear colleagues,
Over the last several weeks the Climate Ark and other Ecological Internet web site have been moved to a massive new server with over four times the capacity of its former host. This was necessary as on recent high-volume traffic days, such as the release of the UNFCCC first summary report, the server had been crashing due to too many users. The whole exercise of moving the content and getting everything working took somewhat longer than we expected - it really involved recreating something I had created over 8 years. But we are now in a position where the blog volume will be increasing, news tracking will be more regular, and our search capabilities expanded to include blog entries. We are very excited about the server hardware upgrade which essentially gives us the computing power of a small bank. The update was largely personally funded so I look forward to recouping some costs in our mid-year fund-raiser. But surely the climate change issue is not going away quickly, the Climate Ark is clearly filling an important niche, and this was an essential investment for biocentric climate change solutions. We are very proud to be your climate change portal service provider. Let us know if you find areas that are not fully restored yet. Thank you for your continued support.
Dr. Glen Barry, President, Ecological Internet