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]

You really are a SICK woman. (BIG GRIN!!!)

I try ..

[Mo1]

Thank You NautiNurse

[Mo1]

Tom Daschle and Jim McDermott come to mind, for some reason

FOFL!!

[glock rocks]

yes, every bit helps, Yeti. thank you for your contribution. FReeping is indeed a team sport.

how about it
South Carolina ?
Let's Roll !

[Mo1]

Thank You LowOiL

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
Alabama
New Jersey
Never Never Land
Michigan
Wisconsin

[Mo1]

SAVED!! .. Thanks Libby ;^)

[Mo1]

Thank You Humblegunner

[Mo1]

Thank You dts32041

[Mo1]

Thank You Rushmore Rocks

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
Michigan
Texas
Missouri
Illinois
Pennsylvania
California

[glock rocks]

He also forgot the potstickers.

what?

how in the world can one forget potstickers?

[Mo1]

I just painted my office that color font. How did you know!..LOL!

Freepers Know Everything .. *L*

[Mo1]

Thank You tiamat

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
Wisconsin
Oregon
monthly from Never Never Land
Michigan
Wisconsin

[kayak]

Some graphics that someone may want to use to represent NeverNeverLand ......

Don't thank me ..... I stole 'em ...... :-)

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$20 from China
$5 from Louisiana
$20 from Indiana
$20 from Texas
$5 from Florida

Thank you FReepers!

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
Indiana
California
Nevada

[Mo1]

Thank You GiveEmDubya

[Mo1]

Thank You DoctorMichael