Project phase	Alpha	Project server	Offline
Account Creation	Enabled	User/Host Count	2275/8352 (3.67 hosts per user)
Unsent tasks	0	Crawled domains	21728333 of 44528991 (48.795%)
Tasks in progress	88	Crawled pages	689044890
Results to assimilate	0	Transfer rate	70.652 GigaBytes per day
Server time	Mon, 12 May 2008 03:00:01 +0200	Status update	Sat, 10 May 2008 09:04:11 +0200

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 --- Project status
During the last weeks, the spider application and the server performed very well and together with the help of the participants the project activity has exceeded the amount of 5.5 million visited domains and 2.5 Terabytes total network traffic within half a month. The new spider application v5.27 performs much better than previous versions and has reduced the average memory usage to a fourth. The next steps will be to update the web code of the project server and start with internal testings of the phase-2 application. To do some preparations for this, the project server will be offline for the next two weeks.
Link: http://www.depspid.net/project_activity.php

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 --- New validator running
The new validator is now running and outstanding credits are being granted step by step. It'll take a few days until all pending credits have been granted. The new validator is already producing tasks for the phase-2 application which is currently being developed. That's why the number of unsent tasks is growing fast and you may see "no work from project" messages even if there seems to be enough work available. The display of unsent tasks will be fixed soon to only show the number of phase-1 tasks available until the phase-2 application is ready.

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 --- New tasks
New tasks are currently being produced and send to the clients. It will take a few days until all clients have work again. Please note that the new validator isn't ready yet. The granting of pending credits is supposed to start sometime next week

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 --- Happy new year!
DepSpid wishes all participants a happy, healthy and successful new year! The final tests last year have completed successfully and normal operation is going to be resumed within a few days.

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 --- 24 hours load test
The current version (v5.24) of the spider application seems to have fixed all common errors. The overall error rate is less than 1 percent now. The last batch of new tasks before the Christmas holidays will be a 24 hours load test. This means that there should be enough work for all clients during this time (maximum 10 simultaneous tasks per host). If this batch runs successful, normal operation is going to be restored on 2nd January 2008.

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