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| Free Republic 4th Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 | Receipts & Pledges to-date: $20,835 | |||
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| Woo hoo!! And we're now over 25%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless. | ||||
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
An hour aint so bad, hubby's record is 7 hours, claimed he kept running into people he knew......... of course I believed him. :-}
Rub it in, I would be a $ a day, if it wasn't for my lousy Canadian money........ I keep saying that, do yo think I get any sympathy.......... NO. :-}
Tell him thank you! Shoot straight and stay alert from an old tread head! Also, tell him not to fart on his tank commander! Man, I hated that!
Semper Fi!
TS
I'm glad you're so involved in the Freepathons! I think it gives you some great customer contact! And, heck, you've got the best, most intelligent, hard-headed, customers in the world! It's gotta be fun!
;-)
Regards,
TS
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