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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: facedown
Thanks for the BUMP Facedown
241
posted on
04/07/2003 7:38:07 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: 007Dawg; 11B3; 123easy; 1911A1; 7mmMag@LeftCoast; A44MAGNUT; Acrobat; Adam-ondi-Ahman; ajd; ...
I am asking my fellow Washington State FReepers to please donate at least $10.00.
It is not that much individually but with just you folks we can go up $3500.00!
242
posted on
04/07/2003 7:38:47 PM PDT
by
CyberCowboy777
(In those days... Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.)
To: Jim Robinson
Happy to donate.
243
posted on
04/07/2003 7:38:50 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: NormsRevenge
Thanks for the update Norm!
also ..
Thank You Freepers From
Colorado
California
Washington
Ohio
244
posted on
04/07/2003 7:39:38 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: geedee
You went and caused tears of happiness. It's beautiful, FRiend. :-)
245
posted on
04/07/2003 7:44:27 PM PDT
by
Gracey
To: Andante
Well, the $8,800 per month was our cost under the old UUNet contract. That was the going rate then. We got quotes from several tier one providers and thought they were probably the best we could find at the time. There were cheaper sources among the lower rated providers, but they may not have been as reliable.
Then the bottom fell out of the market. The big bandwidth providers had ramped up for the Internet boom, but the boom busted and the demand fell off. We shopped around the next year and found another tier one provider who offered us a much better contract rate. And now this year, we were able to negotiate an even better rate with the same company.
No, our traffic has not fallen off. It's probably doubled or more during the same period. And the management of this little site (that would be me with Amy's help) works double shifts seven days per week 365 days per year. Have no idea what I actually do (have never documented it) or why it takes so long to do it. Guess that's just what it takes to operate the largest, fastest, higest quality, best read, ie, "the premier" conservative website on the planet! Ask any true FReeper. They'll tell you.
246
posted on
04/07/2003 7:47:25 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(FReepers are the GReatest!!)
To: Jim Robinson
Done...just finished...new FReeper here...will try to make sure I'm a regular donor...you guys have a great site!
247
posted on
04/07/2003 7:49:04 PM PDT
by
cherry_bomb88
(Are you on the right side of the wrong issue or on the wrong side of the right issue???)
To: Andante
No, sorry, but the donations to FR are not tax deductible.
248
posted on
04/07/2003 7:50:52 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(FReepers are the GReatest!!)
To: cherry_bomb88
Welcome aboard Cherry!
Nice pedigree you got there.
249
posted on
04/07/2003 7:57:03 PM PDT
by
CyberCowboy777
(In those days... Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.)
To: Jim Robinson
Pledged and Bumped.
To: CyberCowboy777
Thanks...I'm very proud of it :o)
251
posted on
04/07/2003 7:58:51 PM PDT
by
cherry_bomb88
(Are you on the right side of the wrong issue or on the wrong side of the right issue???)
To: cherry_bomb88
Thank you, cherry_bomb88!
Just in:
$100 from Pennsylvania
$20 from Minnesota
$50 from Arkansas
$10 from Illinois
$10 from Pennsylvania
$20 from Washington
Thank you FReepers!
252
posted on
04/07/2003 7:59:18 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(FReepers are the GReatest!!)
To: Jim Robinson
I think my state of CA should get credit for the $50 that The Great Satan sent last month when he lost his bet, and Miss Marple's state should get credit for the $100 she bet him.
;-)
To: Brad's Gramma
i like the way you think.
254
posted on
04/07/2003 8:01:53 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(pray for our men and women in harm's way -- God bless America)
To: CyberCowboy777
OK, in fact, I think I'll throw in a little extra. I love FR.
255
posted on
04/07/2003 8:04:13 PM PDT
by
Aria
To: cherry_bomb88
You should be.
The military service of our families brings honor.
All my Grandfathers (4 with the in-laws) served, my father served, uncles, cousins, great uncles.
256
posted on
04/07/2003 8:04:22 PM PDT
by
CyberCowboy777
(In those days... Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.)
To: PA Engineer
Thank you, PA Engineer!
257
posted on
04/07/2003 8:04:27 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(FReepers are the GReatest!!)
To: Jim Robinson
I'll try and bring Illinois up the next time around! :o) You guys have a great site here!
258
posted on
04/07/2003 8:05:47 PM PDT
by
cherry_bomb88
(Are you on the right side of the wrong issue or on the wrong side of the right issue???)
To: Aria
Awsome.
Washington has some great FReepers!
259
posted on
04/07/2003 8:07:33 PM PDT
by
CyberCowboy777
(In those days... Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.)
To: Mo1
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