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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: glock rocks
You ain't seen nothin yet, Dead Bear BUMP!
To: cherry_bomb88
welcome to Free Republic, and thank you!
262
posted on
04/07/2003 8:11:35 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(pray for our men and women in harm's way -- God bless America)
To: Jim Robinson
Worth repeating.....
"...the largest, fastest, higest quality, best read, ie, "the premier" conservative website on the planet!" How about if we THANK YOU!!!!
263
posted on
04/07/2003 8:17:28 PM PDT
by
justshe
(FREE MIGUEL !)
To: glock rocks
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.
264
posted on
04/07/2003 8:20:10 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: Jim Robinson
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
265
posted on
04/07/2003 8:20:35 PM PDT
by
justshe
(FREE MIGUEL !)
To: Jim Robinson
$15.00 in snail-mail will be sent out tomorrow, Jim. potlatch, a Texas gal!
266
posted on
04/07/2003 8:21:53 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(If you want to love living - you've got to live loving...)
To: Ciexyz
Thank You Ciexyz
267
posted on
04/07/2003 8:21:53 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: Gracey
BUMP. Check being snail-mailed!
268
posted on
04/07/2003 8:24:06 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(If you want to love living - you've got to live loving...)
To: justshe
Where is Never Never Land?
To: Jim Robinson; Andante
Ask any true FReeper. They'll tell you. Hi .. My name is Mo1 and I am a
270
posted on
04/07/2003 8:27:55 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: cherry_bomb88
Thank You cherry_bomb88 to Free Republic
271
posted on
04/07/2003 8:30:37 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: potlatch
Thank you, potlatch!
Just in:
$5 from Texas
$30 monthly from California (a new Dollar a Day Member!)
Thank you Texas and California!!!
272
posted on
04/07/2003 8:31:36 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(FReepers are the GReatest!!)
To: PA Engineer
Thank You PA Engineer
273
posted on
04/07/2003 8:32:15 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: patriciaruth
Thank You Freepers from
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Arkansas
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Washington
274
posted on
04/07/2003 8:33:46 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: glock rocks
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
275
posted on
04/07/2003 8:35:21 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: justshe
Thank You Freepers from
Texas
$30 monthly from California (a new Dollar a Day Member!)
276
posted on
04/07/2003 8:36:29 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
To: potlatch
I'm sure your kindness is appreciated. Are you anywhere near Austin? Always recruiting new members to our HOT FR group.
277
posted on
04/07/2003 8:45:40 PM PDT
by
Gracey
To: Jim Robinson
BTTT!
To: Mo1
A shameless begging-for-dollars bump.
279
posted on
04/07/2003 8:49:26 PM PDT
by
kayak
(Help keep the lights on .... Donate to FR!)
To: grizzfan
Where is Never Never Land? Donations that are made by Freepers are given credit to by the State Flag they fly on their Profile Page
If a Freeper doesn't have a Flag then the donation is credited to Never Never Land
280
posted on
04/07/2003 8:52:53 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!!)
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