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

[PianoMan]

BUMP! Everyone become a monthly donor!!!

[eureka!]

$20.00 cash pledge by snail mail right here Jim. Thanks for all you do, and have done...

[Jean S]

Darn you eureka! I wanted to be the first donor. Guess I'll have to settle for second.

[manna]

Monthly donations are the way to go!!!

[eureka!]

LOL. Just happened across the thread. Indeed, after posting I wondered if I jumped the gun. I think I'll throw in another $5.00 to celebrate my premier status. ;^)

[mystery-ak]

Please, everyone...DONATE...they mean business...they even take hostages.....remember Snuggles?

[DainBramage]

I'm in Bump

[firewalk]

bttt

[Jean S]

Hey winner, don't rub it in, lol.

[Jim Robinson]

Thank youn very much!

Here is a batch of checks that came in during the last couple of weeks:

$200 from Kentucky
$25.25 from Alabama
$25.25 from Virginia
$10 from Louisiana
$25 from Wisconsin
$10 from California
$50 from New York
$25 from Wisconsin
$10 from Georgia
$20 from Georgia
$27.50 from New York
$10 from Texas
$30.25 from Arizona
$50.25 from Ohio
$31 from Illinois
$10 monthly from Illinois
$25 from New Jersey
$20 monthly from Alabama
$5 monthly from Washington
$60 from Texas
$20 monthly from Virginia
$50 from California
$25 from Georgia
$20 from Tennessee
$15 from California
$35 from Illinois
$10 from Tennessee
$25 from Tennessee
$15 from Canada
$50 from Texas
$37.50 from New York
$20 from Georgia
$10 from Georgia
$30 from Illinois
$30 from Alabama
$10 monthly from California
$15 from California
$50 from Arkansas
$4 monthly from Illinois
$10 monthly from Georgia
$25 from Wisconsin
$20 monthly from Ohio


And here are the credit card donations made in the first week of April:

$10 monthly from Pennsylvania
$20 from Israel
$25 from Pennsylvania
$20 from Never Never Land
$30 monthly from Wisconsin


And here are some credit card donations that came in during the last few weeks:

$50 from Florida
$20 from Pennsylvania
$3 from Virginia
$36 from New Hampshire
$100 from California
$3 from North Carolina
$3 from Indiana
$3 from Florida
$3 from North Carolina
$20 from Never Never Land
$20 from Texas
$10 monthly from Virginia
$20 from Minnesota
$30 monthly from Florida
$10 monthly from South Korea
$10 from California
$40 from California
$10 from Washington
$25 from Maryland
$12.20 from Alabama
$270 from California
$50 from Never Never Land
$100 from Virginia
$20 from Maryland
$10 from Connecticut
$5 monthly from California
$50 from Florida
$250 from Florida
$50 from Maine
$10 monthly from North Carolina
$100 from Texas
$5 monthly from California
$10 from New Jersey
$100 from California
$50 from New York
$360 from California
$20 from Michigan
$20 from Texas
$50 from Texas
$10 monthly from Texas
$20 from Washington
$50 from Alabama
$15 monthly from Texas
$50 from New York


Thank you all very much!!!

[LayoutGuru2]

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!

You got that right!!! Thanks, I'll be looking forward to this new feature.

[eureka!]

Cool.

Paging ping lists...

[CyberCowboy777]

Washington State Ping List

This is all known Washington State Freepers and interested parties as of 1/03/03
Less those who opted out
If you want on or off this ping list Freepmail me.

[CyberCowboy777]

I believe this is going to be a very popular feature!

You bet!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, LayoutGuru2!

Just in:

$25 from Wisconsin
$50 from Oregon
$50 monthly from Never Never Land
$100 from Michigan
$50 from Wisconsin

Thank you all very much!!

[The_Pickle]

$10 buck via snail-mail

[CyberCowboy777]

Pingers Ping List

If you are a pinger and what on this list Freep Mail me
If you want off this list Freep Mail me.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

remember Snuggles?

Come to think of it, where is that cousin of mine? He should have been home with the milk and bread an hour ago...

[Howlin]

Okay, Live Ping Thread list, it's time to PAY for the PLAY!!!!