[Democrats hate too much]

This place is a way better place to have freerepublic than facebook for many reasons.

[Vendome]

[Sparticus]

Hardware is expensive and has a limited lifespan. I’m curious to know if Jim and John have priced out the cost of hosting freerepublic.com in the cloud on AWS or Azure? There would be huge reliability gains to be made by going that route and a lot of convenience, too.

[NEMDF]

Thank you.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

BTTT

[Yaelle]

There is no service I pay as much for as FreeRepublic. I love JR; meeting him was a huge highlight of my life. But I still would like to know what guarantee re operation we have on this site for donating. I still would like an app so I can actually see what I am writing when freeping on a phone.

This doesn’t happen to other sites. I’m not ok with it. Donating more than I do is not currently an option but I do whatever I can. And if it really is $350k a year, I believe a site that has built in redundancy and some way to easily use it on mobile devices would be possible. I know people who run different sites who don’t make anywhere near that.

There have been ads using What would you do if there were no FR, and we’ve answered that call, and yet there was no FR. Which makes me want to donate LESS. I’d like to know that my donation would actually help modernize FR.

[SVTCobra03]

I have ad blocker and don’t see any ads or popups on Breitbart.

[plain talk]

They need to get away from an antiquated support model and move to the cloud.

[trisham]

Thank you, cpdiii!

[Larry Lucido]

I’ll keep up my usual monthly.

Pinging a frequent user from the Great White North to kick in a few dollars for some upgrades.

Should be hearing back any minute.

Any minute.

(Was that wrong?)

[faucetman]

Maybe you should look into selling vitamins?

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you very much, cpdiii!! Go, FReepers!!

[Taxman]

Well played, cpdiii!

Taxman Bravo Zulu!

I’m raising my monthly donation, thank to your post!

[Movemout]

I am also an unabashed fan of FR.I contribute monthly and quarterly at a rate that I can't reasonably afford but do so because I spend hours reading FR every day. I post rarely as I would much rather read others’ commentary. I already know my opinion. However, I get miffed when I think about how many people can't be bothered to send in a token amount of money for the privilege having access to a beacon of freedom in an environment of ignorance of those who would gladly take away freedom of the individual to satisfy their own needs to feel that they have a right to give away our freedom to the forces of evil rampant in the world. Sorry about the rant;just my dos centavos...OH, and let it be known that I have no objection to JimRob becoming a rich man!