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

[CyberCowboy777]

Is the scoreboard up to date?

It seems you all have mentioned Washington more than the three times it shows for donations!

[justshe]

Thank you Oregon, California and Idaho!!
$10 from Oregon
$50 from California
$50 from Idaho

[BamaGirl]

You're welcome!

[Mo1]

LOL ...

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[Jim Robinson]

Yes, I believe it should be up to date.

[justshe]

You lost the fundraiser 'link'.....(G)

[swheats]

She's got that pretty in pink thang down. Those must be the days she's dreaming about being Madam president.

Bump back atcha.

[Mo1]

Well the link will change .. so I just left it open

Tomorrow when I find my brain cells .. I'll think of something different

[CyberCowboy777]

Last bump of the night

Thank a Vet!
and Donate!

[Jim Robinson]

Ok, I see what happened. There are currently 3 entries for Washington on the scoreboard, but there is a 4th entry. At the beginning of this thread, I entered a batch of checks that Amy had sent me the detail for a week or so ago. They actually should've went into last quarter's scoreboard, but I didn't get them keyed in until after we closed the quarter. I guess that check from Washington did get dated for last quarter and it's not being picked up by the scoreboard program for this quarter. For scoreboard purposes, that's the way it should work anyway.

Thanks very much.

[justshe]

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[justshe]

Gotcha~~

And if you find YOUR brain cells, can I borrow a few?

[Mo1]

Do you really want to .. LOL

[Mo1]

Those must be the days she's dreaming about being Madam president.

Well she can keep dreaming cause it ain't gonna happen

[swheats]

it ain't gonna happen

LOL that's why she has the black pantsuit. The depression has to be stifling.

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
Oregon
California
Idaho

[Mo1]

Yikes! Do you know what time it is here in the East?

Yep .. 3AM and I'm off to bed

Sweet Dreams Y'all

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
Texas and Oregon!!

[justshe]

Time for me to get some shut-eye. Will you turn off the lights when you leave? :-)

[Mo1]

Thanks for the Bump Bella_Bru!