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]

Bump!

[Gabz]

BADA BING BADA BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CedarDave]

Anyone got a *.wav file with fireworks??!!

[justshe]

REFRESH!!!!!

[CedarDave]

Mine is RELOAD.

[SShultz460]

That was my 100 bucks from MN :)

WE ARE CLOSE!!! GO GO GOOD TEAM!

[justshe]

Thanks for posting that other thread!

I burped for Fred!

[CedarDave]

Congrats!!

[Mo1]

Any special requests??

Desperado - Eagles ---->click here

[EdReform]

Do you have any Cajun dance music?

[Jim Robinson]

She sent me the first batch just a few minutes ago. Haven't had time to get it posted into the system yet. Will do shortly.

Just in:

$20 from Ohio
$50 from Georgia
$50 from Michigan
$50 from California
$10 from Michigan
$50 from Oklahoma

Thank you FReepers!!

$51 to go!!!

[Mo1]

Workfire's wav ... or gifs??

[SShultz460]

Normal Threads are easily ignored, I wanna see this quarter freepathon end tonite :)

[CedarDave]

Dixie Chicks?
(ducking from rocks and bricks --- just kidding)

[EdReform]

PING!

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from

$20 from Ohio
$50 from Georgia
$50 from Michigan
$50 from California
$10 from Michigan
$50 from Oklahoma

[justshe]

THANK YOU !

$20 from Ohio
$50 from Georgia
$50 from Michigan
$50 from California
$10 from Michigan
$50 from Oklahoma

[GiveEmDubya]

I'm not checking out for the night until I see $60K on the tally board.

[justshe]

AMEN!

[CedarDave]

Firework sounds to go with the gif graphics that are coming any second now.