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

[Gabz]

I got your FReepmail :-)!!!!!

[Gabz]

$100 from Texas
$50 from Pennsylvania
$20 from Wisconsin

Thank you Texas, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin!!

[Gabz]

$100 from California
$20 from California
$30 from California

Thank you California!!!!

[Fiddlstix]

Good Morning Everybody.

You Know The Drill
Click the Pics J

Coffee & Donuts J

[Gabz]

$100 from California
$50 from Montana

Plus another $100 scheduled to be mailed on 4/16!

Thank you all very much!!

[Gabz]

$100 from California
$50 from Montana

Plus another $100 scheduled to be mailed on 4/16!

Thank you all very much!!

[firewalk]

Thank you (-:

[Gabz]

$10 monthly from Armed Forces - Europe
$25 from California
$10 from Illinois

Thank you all very much!!!

[Gabz]

And $25 more just in from Connecticut!

Thank you Connecticut!!

[Gabz]

$50 from South Carolina
$10 monthly from Oklahoma

Thank you South Carolina and Oklahoma!!

[glock rocks]

g'mornin BIS

coffee. coffee?

i just thought something was wrong with the monitor.

mmmmm. coffee. good idea.

[glock rocks]

hi Gabz!

[Gabz]

Gotta love those numbers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[firewalk]

you prolly didn't even bring a napkin...sheesh!

bad Glock!...no coffee for you...

[glock rocks]

Good Morning Fiddlstix

[Gabz]

Morning, Glock!!!!

Although it is a total mess, there is no longer any furniture in my living room and most of the furniture in the dining room will be placed in the trash pile next week. So we are down to removing the little angel's toys, our beds, my puter and hubby's tools.

I'm so tired.

[Auntie Mame]

Wow, Jim, this is great news about the servers and saving space and costs.

Mo and all who are working this fundraiser, THANK YOU!

And everyone who contributes to this site......

THANK YOU!

[glock rocks]

bad Glock!...no coffee for you...

nooooooooooooo

[Gabz]

Forget the coffee - I've already started on the beer!!!!!!!!

[glock rocks]

hehehe.

sometimes i wish my dining room had no furniture...

we use the table on Thanksgiving. the rest of the time it's high profile storage.