| Free Republic 4th Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 | Receipts & Pledges to-date: $21,133 | |||
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Posted on 04/14/2003 1:08:17 PM PDT by Mo1
It's Time for our Second Quarter FReepathon - Thread 3
Posted on 04/07/2003 6:33 PM EDT 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
We received a huge quantity of server-grade memory from Missouri this fundraiser, enough to completely max out both our database servers-- and that's nothing to sneeze at. We'll be able to handle more hits, and serve more pages much quicker. And, Missouri has threatened to send even more equipment to speed us along through 2003.
Missouri rushed us FOUR 1 GB ECC SDRAM modules for a grand total of FOUR GIGABYTES OF RAM. Simply amazing. I still have disk drives running that are just that size, and this stuff is RAM. I'm drooling. :-)
Way to go Missouri!
184 posted on 04/14/2003 11:51 PM CDT by John Robinson
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I don't understand a word of it, but it sounds wonderful.
Thank you, Missouri!
Totally off-topic, but did you know that only about 1,000 people contribute to keep Free Republic up and running? That is out of over 100,000 registered users on this site.
So with only about $6,000 dollars to go to meet this quarter's goal, I am going to post the following and hope that those who might read this thread will send a couple bucks FR's way.
2 posted on 3/6/02 7:30 AM Pacific by grammymoon:
"What would you do Without FR?
How would You Feel without FR?
Suppose one day you tried to log on and Free Republic wasn’t there?
Where would you get your up to the minute news? How about the live threads as things are happening?
How would you know about the latest Demorat scams, anti-second amendment schemes and all the other liberal, anti-American ploys that are tried every single day?
Insight into world affairs, brilliant wit, sharp retorts, instant information gratification are a few of the things that make FR so vital.
How would you keep on top of things without FR?
How would you know who to contact to complain about the lying politicians, Media Bias, Hollyweirds latest mouth off, sponsors of these idiots, company policies that are unfair and all the other things we need to know to counteract the liberal mindset and the evil plans of liberals?
How would you be part of a Freep?
What would you do without FR????
Freedom isn’t free.
If you enjoy the site and find it a place of like minded Americans to sound off, to get together, to fight back, to have your voice heard and make a difference,PLEASE CONTRIBUTE NOW ! Donate Here By Secure Server
Jim can’t do this alone.
The liberals are sure we won’t be able to keep FR up & running. Prove them wrong. Show them we are indeed united Freepers. Whether it is $5.00, $50.00 or more, it all adds up. Please send a donation now to Free Republic.
Another side comment -- any idea as to why the FR secure server might be rejecting a legit MC for donations ("The transaction has been declined")? -- under my limit, bills all paid, firewall is down for it, I just ordered Splinter Cell (great game, if anybody likes to viddy viddy viddy well) with it, but I can't donate to FR with it! And it's my only dang card, cuz I, like any good conservative, don't like buying things on credit. :p
It expires 9/03 -- maybe MBNA is in the process of giving me a new account #?
80 posted on 04/15/2003 7:38 AM PDT by Kip Lange (The Khaki Pants of Freedom)
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