It's Time for our Second Quarter FReepathon - Thread 3

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[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

[justshe]

Thanks Ed.....and you can see....that single post already garnered one question from Kip Lange about his credit card. He said that he WILL send a check if he can't get his CC to work.

WOO HOO!!!!!! THANKS, Kip!

[glock rocks]

he's my screen saver at work now...

[Mo1]

Screen Saver???


You are a sick sick man .. *L*

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent! I saw this on a couple of threads this morning, and it is a great move!

[glock rocks]

this might have something to do with it, quote from the donation page...

Please note that in order to protect the Cardholder and Merchant, we compare the address information given here with the address to which your credit card statement is mailed. If any part of this address is incorrect, the transaction will be rejected.

it might be really picky... for instance "123 E. Elm" might not be close enough to "123 East Elm" or your middle name instead of initial... it depends upon what your credit card company has you down as.

anyhow, that's my take, and i've been wrong before.

[glock rocks]

screen saver at work

...maybe it'll keep some of the loonies out of my office.

[Mo1]

FOFL ... A true conservative .. always thinking ahead

OHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOO
The VI's just came knocking on the front door .. Thank Goodness my kids are at school

[firewalk]

That is so funny, can I steal borrow it?

[RottiBiz]

For credit card contribution information, the e-mail address is:

cc@freerepublic.com

[Kip Lange]

Thanks, I'll keep trying (my hunch is the new card coming, since this one expires so soon, is fouling things up). Either way, FR will get money out of me -- if I can't do it by CC, I'll send off a check (although CC would still be preferable so gonna keep trying)

[EdReform]

The problem with Kip's CC may be just a network communication problem between Authorize.net and the bank. I was in a restaurant one time and my CC was repeatedly rejected even though there was only a small balance on the card, payments up to date, etc. A friend had to cover the bill. About an hour or so later, I was able to use the card to buy gas.

I called my credit union the next business day and asked them why my card was rejected. They said that their network was down for an hour that day. It just happened to be the same hour I was trying to pay my bill. I always carry extra cash now.

[EdReform]

Maybe we should clone it!!

Actually, someone posted that during one of the past FReepathons and I "borrowed" it.

[EdReform]

Cool!

[justshe]

THANK YOU HoHoeHeaux! (love your nick!)

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Posted by HoHoeHeaux to justshe
On News/Activism ^ 04/15/2003 8:05 AM PDT #111 of 111 ^

OK you shamed me into a donation (o: You are right. As much as I get from this forum, I should give a little back in return. It'a not much but I am putting a check in the mail right now. Thanks for the reminder. And God bless Laci's family.

[justshe]

Feel free to post this on some threads. YOU get around!!

We've already had two positive responses to the "What would you do Without Free Republic?" post.

[EdReform]

Bumping for new monthly donors

Just 17 cents per day will help chase the demoRATS away

Click The Logo To Donate

[Grampa Dave]

Freep mail the full code to post it.

[Grampa Dave]

You are just now discovering that our GR is a sick, sick, sick Glock?

[glock rocks]

yes... but i'm getting much better.

[Roscoe]

BTTT