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

[Mo1]

Thank You Potlatch

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks Jen.

Bumpity, bumpity, bump!

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$50 from Arkansas
$30 from Tennessee


Thank you Arkansas and Tennessee!!

[Mo1]

Thank you Arkansas and Tennessee!!

[Friend of thunder]

I am already in, as of 4:32PM; these last two weeks have really shown the value this place. Thanks for the ping.

[Mo1]

PING A LING

If you already Donated .. THANK YOU!

If y'all can help Bump the thread .. An Even Bigger Thank You!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, Friend of thunder!

Just in:

$30 monthly from Colorado
$10 from Ohio

Thank you Colorado and Ohio!!

[MJY1288]

Count me in for the usual Franklin

God Bless America & thank God for FR

[Mo1]

A PA PING A LING

If you already Donated .. THANK YOU!

If y'all can help Bump the thread .. An Even Bigger Thank You!

If you want off my ping list .. please freepmail me .. Thanks!

[Friend of thunder]

Thank you for the wonderful site!

[The Shrew]

OK, it's official! Signed, sealed, delivered!

I love this site! I can't believe I've been here so long and been involved in so much! I am so very proud of how this site has supported our veterans and the troops in the field!

Keep up the good work!

TS

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, MJY1288!

Just in:

$100 from Maryland
$20 from Texas

Thank you Maryland and Texas!!

[MJY1288]

Handled, Thanks for the ping

[Maigrey]

Ditto H***Yea Bump!

[MJY1288]

Your very welcome

[Mo1]

Thank you MJY1288

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Mo1]

Thank you The Shrew

[Alamo-Girl]

Bumping for more dollar-a-day Freepers!

[Mo1]

Thank you Freepers from
Maryland and Texas!!