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It's Time for our Second Quarter FReepathon
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| March 7, 2003
| Jim Robinson
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
TOPICS: Announcements; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adminlectureseries; freepathon
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To: justshe
You really are a SICK woman. (BIG GRIN!!!) I try ..
181
posted on
04/07/2003 6:32:15 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(Can I ask the media stupid questions?)
To: NautiNurse
Thank You NautiNurse
182
posted on
04/07/2003 6:35:48 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: NormsRevenge
Tom Daschle and Jim McDermott come to mind, for some reason FOFL!!
183
posted on
04/07/2003 6:36:20 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: Yeti
yes, every bit helps, Yeti. thank you for your contribution. FReeping is indeed a team sport.
how about it
South Carolina ?
Let's Roll !
184
posted on
04/07/2003 6:36:26 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(pray for our men and women in harm's way -- God bless America)
To: LowOiL
Thank You LowOiL
185
posted on
04/07/2003 6:37:08 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: terilyn
Thank You Freepers from
Alabama
New Jersey
Never Never Land
Michigan
Wisconsin
186
posted on
04/07/2003 6:39:05 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: sweetliberty
SAVED!! .. Thanks Libby ;^)
187
posted on
04/07/2003 6:39:56 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: humblegunner
Thank You Humblegunner
188
posted on
04/07/2003 6:41:13 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: dts32041
Thank You dts32041
189
posted on
04/07/2003 6:42:11 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: Rushmore Rocks
Thank You Rushmore Rocks
190
posted on
04/07/2003 6:43:04 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: AntiJen
Thank You Freepers from
Michigan
Texas
Missouri
Illinois
Pennsylvania
California
191
posted on
04/07/2003 6:44:37 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
He also forgot the potstickers. what?
how in the world can one forget potstickers?
192
posted on
04/07/2003 6:44:57 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(pray for our men and women in harm's way -- God bless America)
To: cmsgop
I just painted my office that color font. How did you know!..LOL! Freepers Know Everything .. *L*
193
posted on
04/07/2003 6:45:17 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: tiamat
Thank You tiamat
194
posted on
04/07/2003 6:45:52 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: Gabz
Thank You Freepers from
Wisconsin
Oregon
monthly from Never Never Land
Michigan
Wisconsin
195
posted on
04/07/2003 6:47:23 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: Mo1
Some graphics that someone may want to use to represent NeverNeverLand ......
Don't thank me ..... I stole 'em ...... :-)
196
posted on
04/07/2003 6:48:25 PM PDT
by
kayak
(Pray for our President, our military, and our nation!)
To: Mo1
Just in:
$20 from China
$5 from Louisiana
$20 from Indiana
$20 from Texas
$5 from Florida
Thank you FReepers!
197
posted on
04/07/2003 6:48:38 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(FReepers are the GReatest!!)
To: SoDak
Thank You Freepers from
Indiana
California
Nevada
198
posted on
04/07/2003 6:48:40 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: GiveEmDubya
Thank You GiveEmDubya
199
posted on
04/07/2003 6:49:38 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: DoctorMichael
Thank You DoctorMichael
200
posted on
04/07/2003 6:50:18 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
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