It's Time for our Second Quarter FReepathon - Thread 3

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[Mo1]

It's Time for our Second Quarter FReepathon - Thread 3

Posted on 04/07/2003 6:33 PM EDT by 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

[Jim Robinson]

Latest incoming:

$10 from Florida
$50 from Massachusetts
$30 from Maryland
$5 monthly from Michigan
$50 from Colorado
$5 from Wisconsin
$50 from Wisconsin
$10 from Texas
$25 from Washington
$25 from Washington
$10 from Illinois

Thank you all very much!!

[steveegg]

Hey, I like boring.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Me too, actually.

Too much excitement in my life. Honest.

[steveegg]

Latest outgoing thanks to...

Florida
Massachusetts
Maryland
Michigan (monthly)
Colorado
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Texas
Washington
Washington
Illinois

[justshe]

THANK YOU !

$10 from Florida
$50 from Massachusetts
$30 from Maryland
$5 monthly from Michigan
$50 from Colorado
$5 from Wisconsin
$50 from Wisconsin
$10 from Texas
$25 from Washington
$25 from Washington
$10 from Illinois

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$50 from Wisconsin
$50 from Arizona
$5 from New Jersey
$20 from Michigan
$10 from Never Never Land
$10 from Never Never Land

Thank you all very much!!

[steveegg]

Thank you Wisconsin, Arizona, New Jersey, Michigan, Never Never Land, and Never Never Land (again).

If my math is right, we're at $2,262 from goal. May we hit it tonight.

[ValerieUSA]

Here's a Texas spring weather THANK YOU bump!

[glock rocks]

Just in:

$50 from Wisconsin
$50 from Arizona
$5 from New Jersey
$20 from Michigan
$10 from Never Never Land
$10 from Never Never Land

Thank you all very much !!

[glock rocks]

oh yeah.

[Brad’s Gramma]

But then I couldn't harrass you for awhile!

[Kip Lange]

Veni, vidi, bumpi.

[Mo1]

Here's a FUN BUMP!

Thank You Freeper
from Florida
from Massachusetts
from Maryland
monthly from Michigan
from Colorado
from Wisconsin
from Wisconsin
from Texas
from Washington
from Washington
from Illinois

[glock rocks]

you talkin to me?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yes.

I was.

In a fun, kind, caring, respectful, gracious, loving way.

[glock rocks]

{{{smooch}}}

[ValerieUSA]

country sunset BUMP

[Mo1]

OMG ... try in C-Span ..

[Brad’s Gramma]

GASP!

[Mo1]

DANG!!

Turn on C-span