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 web/app/snapshot/templates/description.mako |   14 +++++++++-----
 web/app/snapshot/templates/news.mako        |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
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diff --git a/web/app/snapshot/templates/description.mako b/web/app/snapshot/templates/description.mako
index bdec68e..8119bb8 100644
--- a/web/app/snapshot/templates/description.mako
+++ b/web/app/snapshot/templates/description.mako
@@ -15,11 +15,15 @@ used by all.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-The Debian Project would like to thank <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/";>Wellcome
-Trust Sanger Institute</a> and the <a href="http://www.ece.ubc.ca/";>UBC
-Electrical and Computer Engineering</a> for providing hardware and hosting. We
-would also like to thank <a href="http://www.nordicbet.com/";>Nordic Gaming</a>
-for providing hardware in the past.
+The Debian Project would like to thank <a
+href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/";>Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute</a> and <a
+href="http://www.leaseweb.com>LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V.</a> for providing
+hardware and hosting.
+
+We would also like to thank the <a href="http://www.ece.ubc.ca/";>Electrical and
+Computer Engineering</a> department at the University of British Columbia,
+Canada and <a href="http://www.nordicbet.com/";>Nordic Gaming</a> for providing
+hardware/hosting and hardware, respectively, in the past.
 </p>
 
 <h2>Usage</h2>
diff --git a/web/app/snapshot/templates/news.mako b/web/app/snapshot/templates/news.mako
index d4a378a..41280b2 100644
--- a/web/app/snapshot/templates/news.mako
+++ b/web/app/snapshot/templates/news.mako
@@ -1,9 +1,32 @@
 <h1>News</h1>
+<h2>2014-06-01</h2>
+<p>
+We added a cluster of machines generously provided by <a
+href="http://www.leaseweb.com/";>LeaseWeb</a> to provide the snapshot.debian.org
+service.
+</p>
+<p>
+Snapshot used to run on two machines hosted at and provided by the <a
+href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/";>Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute</a> and by the
+<a href="http://www.ece.ubc.ca/";>Electrical and Computer Engineering</a>
+department at the University of British Columbia, Canada.  A few months ago,
+the machine at UBC, named <code>stabile.debian.org</code>, started to die.
+Since it was approaching its storage capacity limits anyway, we began looking
+for a new second home for snapshot, and LeaseWeb offered!  Providing snapshot
+from two different places (now Sanger and LeaseWeb) allows us to survive
+temporary and not-so-temporary issues that affect any single site.</p>
+<p>
+Currently, snapshot consists of 24 terabytes of data in about 15 million files,
+and it appears to be growing at a rate of approximately 5 terabytes a year (or
+about 10 megabytes per minute).
+</p>
+
 <h2>2012-09-23</h2>
 <p>
 Just a quick datapoint: Currently snapshot has about 11 million files in a bit
-over 16 Terabytes of data.
+over 16 terabytes of data.
 </p>
+
 <h2>2010-12-14</h2>
 <p>
 Around 2010-11-20 the server which hosted snapshot-master stumbled into
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