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]

They all work very well. Whatever works best for you works best for us. Thanks very much!

[Jen]

Please help $upport FR ping!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, Jhoffa_!

Just in:

$10 from Vermont
$20 from Indiana
$25 from Washington

Thank you Vermont, Indiana and Washington!!

[visualops]

Hope this freepathon is a huge success!
I'm squeezing out that monthly for ya, but with any luck I'll win the Powerball someday lol

[terilyn]

Snuggles says

THANK YOU

[cmsgop]

Snail Mail on the way for Free Republic!!!!

Sammy and Frodo Can't Have None!

[terilyn]

Louisiana
Never Never Land
New York
Ohio
North Carolina
Indiana

[Dog Gone]

The more monthly donors we get, the shorter the Freepathons will be. We can even eliminate them!

[terilyn]

facedown

[tictoc]

Bump to the top!

[Jhoffa_]

Sammy and Frodo Can't Have None!

Amen! No money to those Cross Dressing Sissies!

Donate it to a worthy cause instead!

(FRiends don't let FRiends watch LOTR..)

[Mo1]

WOw .. it tomorrow already?

BUMP

[terilyn]

THANK YOU

khenrich

[terilyn]

THANK YOU

blam

[Mo1]

Thank You Eureka

[Mo1]

Thank You JeanS

[terilyn]

THANK YOU

Never Never Land
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[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers From
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[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers From
monthly from Pennsylvania
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monthly from Wisconsin

[SoDak]

Just re-upped as a monthly. Thanks Jim, I'd be lost without FR.