It's Time for our Second Quarter FReepathon

Donate to FR via Secure Server ^ | March 7, 2003 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Howdy everyone,

Are you ready for another FReepathon?

Good news:

John and Tami negotiated a new contract with our bandwidth supplier and got our bill lowered a couple thousand per month! Our monthly expenses are now totalling just under $20,000, so we're setting the target for this Freepathon at $60,000. We have approximately $18,000 (and growing) per quarter coming from our monthly donors so we will only need to raise a little over $40,000 this time. Hopefully, we can do this in a week to ten days.

We went over the goal last quarter and we used part of the extra money to purchase and install two new servers. We now have a total of five servers running Free Republic. John can post the details, but basically, we have two servers being used as web servers, two as database servers and one for the search engine. There may be some sharing and overlapping of duties, but that's the general configuration.

John also found a way to compress the files before serving them so we are able to effectively move 20mbs of data through our 10mbs line. In other words, we've doubled our capacity and halved our bandwidth cost!

Way to go John and Tami!!

(Just in time too! We hit the 10mps X 2 capacity a few times during the peak periods of the last couple of weeks).

And finally, we've added two new high capacity disk drives (I believe they're 72 gigabytes each) and just as soon as John gets the upload and file management programs ready to go, we'll be able to offer our donors directory space on their accounts to upload pictures, graphics, and music files, etc. I believe this is going to be a very popular feature!

Looking forward to another great fundraiser!

Thank you all very much for your continuing support and dedication to the cause!

Jim

[Joe Brower]

$25 smackers from the sunshine state.

[Mo1]

Thank You geedee

[geedee]

Bless you.... And God Bless the USA and our Soldiers. I've never been prouder to be an American.

[glock rocks]

thanks!

[Mo1]

Thank You Joe Brower

[kayak]

While large donations are great, often it is the small ones that are sacrificial and inspiring.

Every penny that is donated is greatly appreciated and helps to pay the bills.

Those who are not in a position right now to donate can still make an important contribution by bumping this thread or pinging others to it.

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, Joe Brower!

Just in:

$25 from Florida
$50 from Alabama
$100 from New York
$10 from Idaho

Thank you FReepers!!

[sweetliberty]

"hope he rots in hell too"

I'm quite sure he will.

[facedown]

A you're-most-welcome BTTT.

[justshe]

Thank you FReepers!!

$25 from Florida
$50 from Alabama
$100 from New York
$10 from Idaho

[Andante]

The new bandwidth contract is $2700 per month (this is down from $4800 per month last year and $8800 the year before) for a 10mbs line. Great savings!

Man, that's awesome! Bandwidth is down $6,100 a month in two years? That's a savings of $73,200 a year! Why was it so high before? Has traffic gone down?

Can you give me some idea of what's involved in the Administration if that doesn't include technical services? Also, can we take a donation to FR off our taxes?

[Mo1]

Very Nice Kay .. Thank you

Also ...

Thank You Freepers from
Florida
Alabama
New York
Idaho

[socal_parrot]

Bump

[Billthedrill]

OKOKOK, this time I didn't use the credit card I stole from Mom's purse, OK? BTT...

[Brad’s Gramma]

Please, everyone...DONATE...they mean business...they even take hostages.....remember Snuggles?

And worse, far worse will happen than the taking of some STUPID little bear.

Monthly donor, or else.

[facedown]

Bump the thread for ya.

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you Billthedrill!

Just in:

$50 from Colorado
$50 from California
$100 from Washington
$20 from Ohio

Thank you FReepers!!

[Mo1]

Thank You Billthedrill .. aka Mom

[NormsRevenge]

From the top of Drudge .. No Sirens ;-)

The U.S.-led coalition bombed a Baghdad commercial block yesterday after receiving a tip that Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein was there, Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough are reporting for the WASHINGTON TIMES.

A U.S. military official tells the TIMES that the allies bombed the al Saa restaurant block at 3 p.m. Baghdad time
yesterday on information from a 'sensitive intelligence source.'

The source said that Saddam and senior Ba'ath Party leaders were meeting with 30 intelligence officials in a facility
behind or beneath the restaurant.

[RottiBiz]

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