1.   Backup servers will be on hand to prevent the system from overloading the way it has before.

2.   By Monday afternoon, technicians had connected a smaller backup server, but it was unable to keep up with the flow of e-mail traffic.

3.   E-mail service was shut down for a few hours Monday and then was put into very slow operation with a small backup server.

4.   Now you can store commonly-used files on the backup server, where they can be downloaded by anyone who needs them.

5.   On Tuesday afternoon, Road Runner had hooked up a larger backup server to its e-mail system.

6.   Published reports said the company has been hired by Microsoft Corp. to run backup servers following hacker attacks.