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

[Brad’s Gramma]

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[glock rocks]

welcome to Free Republic, and thank you!

[justshe]

Worth repeating....."...the largest, fastest, higest quality, best read, ie, "the premier" conservative website on the planet!"

How about if we THANK YOU!!!!

[cherry_bomb88]

Thanks...I really truly love it here and have already met some great people. I sometimes feel so alone being a conservative in Daley Land.

[justshe]

Thank you FReepers!
Thank you, cherry_bomb88!
$100 from Pennsylvania
$20 from Minnesota
$50 from Arkansas
$10 from Illinois
$10 from Pennsylvania
$20 from Washington

[potlatch]

$15.00 in snail-mail will be sent out tomorrow, Jim. potlatch, a Texas gal!

[Mo1]

Thank You Ciexyz

[potlatch]

BUMP. Check being snail-mailed!

[Lucy Lake]

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[Mo1]

Ask any true FReeper. They'll tell you.

Hi .. My name is Mo1 and I am a

[Mo1]

Thank You cherry_bomb88

to Free Republic

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, potlatch!

Just in:

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Thank you Texas and California!!!

[Mo1]

Thank You PA Engineer

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Arkansas
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Washington

[Mo1]

LOL .. I swear I'm gonna get confused on my postings

If I make a post here that should be on the War Thread .. just ingore me .. LOL

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
Texas
$30 monthly from California (a new Dollar a Day Member!)

[Gracey]

I'm sure your kindness is appreciated. Are you anywhere near Austin? Always recruiting new members to our HOT FR group.

[Eastbound]

BTTT!

[kayak]

A shameless begging-for-dollars bump.

[Mo1]

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