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. Wow! That's a big savings! How much does bandwidth run under the new contract?
Is there a budget posted somewhere that gives a breakdown of the monthly expenses?
...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!
Cool! Is there a minimun donation required for directory space?
The new bandwidth contract is $2700 per month (this is down from $4800 per month last year and $8800 the year before) for a 10mbs line. Great savings!
The budget is posted here:
https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/budget The "Technical Services" item in the budget is for John and Tami who provide our programming and systems management services and the "Administrative" item is me and Amy.