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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: umbagi
Thank You umbagi !!
201
posted on
04/07/2003 6:51:42 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: sweetliberty
SAVED AGAIN!!
ROFLMBO!!!!
202
posted on
04/07/2003 6:52:26 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: Gabz
But a warning - I'm going to be real scarce - after all this time of whining during the previous thons, we have FINALLY sold our house and are moving in 10 days........... YAHOOOOO!!!! ... Great News!!
203
posted on
04/07/2003 6:53:41 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: terilyn
Fast with the fingers and fast at home. I'm going to call you Wonder Woman from now on! HA! .. More like the Scare Crow who needs a brain .. I can never remember a thing .. LOL
204
posted on
04/07/2003 6:55:10 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: Mo1
bob. bagdad bob.
205
posted on
04/07/2003 6:56:05 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(pray for our men and women in harm's way -- God bless America)
To: justshe
Thank You Freepers from
Arizona
Tennessee
Never Never Land
Connecticut
South Carolina
New Jersey
Indiana
Texas
New York
206
posted on
04/07/2003 6:57:34 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: Mo1
207
posted on
04/07/2003 6:57:43 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your your mouth and remove all doubt.")
To: Air Force Born
Thank You Air Force Born
208
posted on
04/07/2003 6:58:54 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: sistergoldenhair
Thank You sistergoldenhair
209
posted on
04/07/2003 6:59:32 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: "Tony" Aguilar; 13th warrior; 1L; 1riot1ranger; 2bfree; 2_4texas; 375 H&H; 43for8; 4truth; ...
Okay, a little challenge to Texans!
I lost my job (right before Christmas), and can't go monthly, yet.
OTOH, Jim and John and Free Republic have really taught me to count my blessings: I've been able to Freep nearly 24x7 throughout the war coverage, with no lousy job to go to!
I just kicked Texas into first place with $25, and will go monthly when I get some cash coming in. Surely those of you with jobs can all jump in and at least match it!
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150 posted on 04/07/2003 5:52 PM PDT by umbagi
210
posted on
04/07/2003 7:00:11 PM PDT
by
Gracey
To: Yeti
Thank You Yeti
211
posted on
04/07/2003 7:01:01 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: glock rocks
now, who's got a Texas ping list to get umbagi's challenge rolling?
Done
212
posted on
04/07/2003 7:01:20 PM PDT
by
Gracey
To: green team 1999
Thank You Freepers from
monthly from Texas
California
California
Illinois
213
posted on
04/07/2003 7:01:56 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: Gracey
Already a monthly donor
214
posted on
04/07/2003 7:03:00 PM PDT
by
geedee
To: kayak
Don't thank me ..... I stole 'em ...... :-) Well then .. Thank You to the person you stole them from .. *L*
215
posted on
04/07/2003 7:03:45 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: Jim Robinson
Geeeez Jim ... I'm having a hard time to keeping up with you tonight
;^).. Thank You Freepers from
China
Louisiana
Indiana
Texas
Florida
216
posted on
04/07/2003 7:05:30 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: geedee
:-) You're a true FReeper. I just happen to ping the entire Texas list and have no idea who has who hasn't, but your comments may help the next Texan.
Bless you.... And God Bless the USA and our Soldiers. I've never been prouder to be an American.
217
posted on
04/07/2003 7:05:56 PM PDT
by
Gracey
To: glock rocks
OMG FOFL!!!!
Good one!
218
posted on
04/07/2003 7:06:22 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: sweetliberty
How many people are on Free Republic threads right now that would donate $10 towards the Saddam and Sons funeral wreath ?(via a FR donation--teehee!)We need some serious carpet bombing of the threads.
219
posted on
04/07/2003 7:07:01 PM PDT
by
justshe
(FREE MIGUEL !)
To: sweetliberty
I heard .. hope he rots in hell too
220
posted on
04/07/2003 7:07:22 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
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