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

[Mo1]

Well it's late and I'm wiped out .. so I'm gonna head off to bed .. Sweet Dreams Y'all

If y'all could keep the thread bump, I'd appreciate it .. Thanks

[justshe]

Will for a bit.......I am already using toothpicks on my eyelids too!

[justshe]

The pic was too cute NOT to use. Of course with HER attitude, this might be Hillary as a child.

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[Jim Robinson]

Goodnight, Mo1.

[Jim Robinson]

Latest in:

$20 from Illinois
$20 from Never Never Land

Thank you FReepers!

[firewalk]

bump & good morning Mo1

[glock rocks]

Latest in:

$20 from Illinois
$20 from Never Never Land

Thank you FReepers !!

[glock rocks]

g'morning BIS

is the coffee ready yet?

[Jim Robinson]

Latest in:

$20 from Italy
$50 from Texas
$100 from North Carolina
$10 monthly from New York
$10 from California
$20 from Texas

Thank you all very much!!

[RottiBiz]

Good morning!

30%! Wow!!!

[glock rocks]

Latest in:

$20 from Italy
$50 from Texas
$100 from North Carolina
$10 monthly from New York
$10 from California
$20 from Texas

Thank you all very much !!

[glock rocks]

g'morning Rotti.

not bad for a couple days, huh?

[firewalk]

is the coffee ready yet?

don't know....who was making it? Good morning Glock, nice picture (-:

[firewalk]

Good morning RottiBiz (-:

[glock rocks]

coffee? sheesh, i'm out of grounds... hopefully the coffee fairy will leave some in my desk over the weekend

if we're fortunate, maybe Fiddlstix will drop by again this morning.

[GunsareOK]

$50 in the mail from Virginia.

[glock rocks]

$50 in the mail from Virginia.

Thank you GunsareOK !!

[Fiddlstix]

Good Morning Everybody.

You Know The Drill
Click the Pics J

Coffee & Donuts J

[glock rocks]

g'morning Fiddlstix.

baby elephant... mancini?

[RottiBiz]

Good morning, Fiddlstix!

Thanks for the breakfast.