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I will likely donate half my tithes for this month when my $361 social security check posts on my bank.

Quix...my Lord!!!! Don't spend a penny here. Use that $361 a month for things you need or, if you must, give to your church or other local charity.

Don't you know what a fraud FR has become? $94,000 a calendar quarter for a website?! That's $376,000 a year. I have worked in the information systems field since 1988, so know whereof I speak.

Where is the public accounting? Where are these supposed new servers we keep hearing about? Do you know that Dell PowerEdge enterprise-class servers (to use one example) are cheap? You can buy rack-type servers for as low as $599, tower-type servers for $399, and blade servers for $1034. Dell's high-end servers start at $4360. In other words, about $10,000 to $15,000 will buy two top-of-the-line servers. So where are they?

Here's a link to Dell's server web page. People can research this information for themselves.

FR's programming is 1996-vintage. It does not need massive enterprise-class servers to run. In addition, web hosting costs have come way, way down since 1996.

The low-end $399 Dell server has up to absolutely massive 12TB(squared) of storage. That's terabytes. One terabyte = 1000 gigabytes, or 1 trillion bytes. Even if they've saved every thread ever started on FR since 1996, and every private message, no way would such simple HTML data consume the storage of two servers, each with 12TB*squared) storage.

Please, Quix, your $361 is much more important in your real life than it is on this fantasy called Free Republic.

You are likely right about my meager income.

And I certainly don’t doubt you about the servers. Many IT professionals have said similar things over the years.

JR likes things the way he’s had it all these years.

I can sort of understand him being a stick-in-the-mud curmudgeon about such things. I’d likely be, too.

I do think a LOT more candor and public info about where the money goes would be more ethical and honorable as well as more effective for FR. He seems to have complied to some degree tonight.

Thankfully, I live with my Dad and another FREEPER housemate so I don’t lack for shelter or food. Still, it is a meager income and I would be better to be wiser about it than I often am.

One of the reasons I’m in that state, however, is a life of giving what I had away to folks who needed it more and to help invite folks to Jesus The Christ. I don’t regret that. It does limit me now, more than a little however. LOL.

Thanks for your kind words.

I deeply appreciate your thoughtfulness and candor.