When you consider the costs of having a staff to answer inquires and look up and copy records and collect fees for doing this the present method of having the records on line where we can look and find what we need makes much more sense. Another thing having the digital images saves the records from the wear and tear of countless times of being handled by people. Without the internet and the images the archives would be inundated with people every day and overwhelm the facilities and staff.
I am very grateful for the foresight and professionalism of the CCA staff and will continue to thank and praise them. Rick From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of João Ventura Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 11:39 AM To: Azores Genealogy Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] CCA Down Victor, The "cloud" is not free... And while I do agree that on principle it would make sense, the truth is that the thing that's REALLY expensive on the cloud is storage. You can get Amazon Web Services to scale easily the number of servers, but telling that each of those servers would have to be able to store and replicate several Terabytes of data would probably consume the budget for the whole archipelago quite fast. And it doesn't make sense to have several servers all going to the same storage server wherever they store all those images. Things that would make sense: 1. Allowing Familysearch to serve those images (pros: free, and no work necessary; cons: nobody would use the CCA servers ever again). 2. See 1., to be honest. João Ventura https://tombo.pt/en On Saturday, 14 January 2017 19:10:58 UTC+1, Victor Soares wrote: They should load all that data up on the cloud to be fault tolerant. Likely cheaper and less of a maintenance hassle for the CCA admins. On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 09:42 Ângela Loura <[email protected] <javascript:> > wrote: Contacts: <javascript:> [email protected] <javascript:> [email protected] 2017-01-14 17:35 GMT+00:00 Richard Francis Pimentel <[email protected] <javascript:> >: CCA seems to have gone down this morning around 10:00 am EST. As of now it is still down. Rick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <javascript:> . Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <javascript:> . Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
