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

[Jim Robinson]

Here it is:

$25 from Utah
$50 from Colorado

We're over the top!!

Thank you Utah and Colorado!!

Thank you FReepers and Lurkers!!!

Yahoo!!!

[Mo1]

I can do it .. FOFL

BTW .. you have mail

[justshe]

FREE REPUBLIC IS THE BEST!

GOD BLESS AMERICA & OUR MILITARY!!

AND GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BUSH, JIM ROBINSON,
AND ALL THE GREAT FREEPERS THAT CONTRIBUTED!

[Mo1]

[folklore]

I have you covered. It is coming your way.

[unsycophant]

I've enjoyed following this thread. Thanks to all for keeping it alive.

[SoDak]

I've tuned in for the end too. Gotta see the fireworks on another fundraiser.

[Mo1]

WOW !!!! .. That is OUTSTANDING!!!

[EdReform]

BUMP!!!

[Mo1]

I'll see what I can find

[GiveEmDubya]

There it is!

I feel the left has just been defeated!

Another good day to be a FReeper.

[CedarDave]

First end-of-fundraising for me, too. Time to mail my taxes!

[justshe]

THANK YOU FOR FREE REPUBLIC!

Sweet dreams tonight, Jim!

[SoDak]

Awesome! Is it just me, or do they end much faster these days than they used to?

[EdReform]

You'll post the checks that were picked up today in this thread, right?

[Jim Robinson]

Wow! Great post!!

Congratulations FReepers!

God bless you all!!

And God bless America!!!

[EdReform]

What about my Cajun dance music?!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you Fundraisers!!

And Thank you FReepers and Lurkers!!

Great job everyone!!

[Becki]

Whoo Hooo!!!!!

Becki

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

My donation was the one that put it over the top.