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

[Jim Robinson]

I don't know. You may want to contact John about this.

[Jim Robinson]

Ok, thanks very much.

[Bella_Bru]

Bump!

[justshe]

I'll loan you my plate. (Big helpful grin!)

[WVNan]

Since I haven't talked to you in such a long time, tell me how you are doing. Are you staying well? I do see you and Sheila and Chris in the Fresno Rally threads and you all look good. And, thanks to John for all his hard work. Now when is he going to get around to making it so we can delete old pings? We must have million pings each and that would take up a lot of bytes.

[Jim Robinson]

We're all fine. Thanks very much. John's plate is full and overflowing. All i can say is, it's on his list. Someday we'll get it all together. LOL

Just in:

$50 from Texas
$100 from Oregon

Thank you Texas and Oregon!!

[justshe]

How about our 'sent' FRmail too? Just one button to trashcan the entire list is my hope...lol.

[CyberCowboy777]

BUMP!

[justshe]

Thank you Texas and Oregon!!

$50 from Texas
$100 from Oregon

[WVNan]

Thanks anyway, but I have plenty. : )

[justshe]

So I see.......but I'm doubting you'll get the contents from THOSE plates donated to FR...LOL.

[WVNan]

Hehehe...see what happens when you decide to take on the world? Bet you never dreamed of the trouble you were getting into. Sort of like when I said, "Here I am Lord, send me."

[WVNan]

Oh, you migbt be surprised. I just might send my tithe for a week to FR instead of giving it back to the church. After all I do get a lot of my inspiration from you guys here at FR.

[justshe]

Oh my......well, thank you!

[WVNan]

Yikes! Do you know what time it is here in the East? Happy collecting. I'm off to ZZZZZZZZ.

[justshe]

Living on the West Coast DOES have some advantages. Night, WVNan.

[CyberCowboy777]

Good Federal politicians is not one of them!

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

BTTT

[justshe]

Reagan made up for a lot of BAD federal politicians, though.

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$10 from Oregon
$50 from California
$50 from Idaho

Thank you Oregon, California and Idaho!!