Due to increased demands for the RAC daily newsletter, the time to send it out had increased from 7 hours (starting at 6AM EST) to 16-17. To handle the increased volume, the database was upgraded from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 in late February. This has resulted in the time being reduced by 1/3rd. New hardware and software will be installed in mid March (a brand new server with double the processor speed and a newer operating system) to further speed up the newsletter.
3/16: New hardware and software has been installed. The newsletter now goes out before 11:30am to all HTML subscribers (text subscribers receive emails after that). As the site grows, the times will slow down again. We will monitor the situation and apply new hardware/software solutions as required.