| Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 | Receipts & Pledges to-date: $9,585 | |||
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| Woo hoo!! And we're now over 11%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless. | ||||
Posted on 04/07/2003 3:33:52 PM PDT 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
now, who's got a Texas ping list to get umbagi's challenge rolling?
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE!
Leni
You really are a SICK woman. (BIG GRIN!!!)
AND WOO-HOO! FREEPERTHON time!!
It will be a couple of days, but you can count on it, and me!
Let me start by saying that I have been remiss in donating, this was my first time. I have an excuse: I am poor(no sympathy, please).
As I said in the little comment box in the donation form, FR has been a significant part of my life for quite some time now. And for quite some time now, I have been telling myself that when I aquire a bit more financial success for myself, one of the first things I want to do is cut Jim a check.
Well, the road to riches can be long and rugged, and to make a long story short: I am still not there. So, anyway, my conscience is nagging, and I finally decided to give a small amount, with the idea that every little bit helps.
So I did. It was easy(except for the part where I put in the wrong expiration date, and even that was easy to fix).
And I went through the process and came out on the other end. On the other end is a table, where you have listed some stats for donations listed by location.
And I scrolled down to SC, and to my surprise:
Reciepts: $20.00
Donors: 1
Average: $20.00
I am the only donor from SC so far this quarter?!?!?!?! I thought we were such an active area? What is going on?
Where are all the SC FReepers?
Anyway, I hope my little bit helps, and thank-you, Jim, for putting up with me for all this time.
I warned him, He says he'll be very careful but he refuses to live in fear.
He also forgot the potstickers.
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