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

[GiveEmDubya]

This is my first fairly steady membership at FR in 4 years, so this is the first one to my recollection.

Seems pretty quick to me. Now we have to stamp them out all together with people becoming monthly donors!

[kayak]

I think they are much faster ..... people get to where they'll do anything to stop those annoying posts on every thread ...... LOL!

Actually, there's not even as much complaining about them as there used to be. Now if we could just get enough monthlies, we wouldn't have to do this at all ........

[Gabz]

Ijust did!!!!!!!!!!

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jim Robinson]

Yes, will be posting what we have so far in just a few minutes.

[kayak]

And THANK YOU, Jim!

God bless you!

[ChadGore]

Congradulations ! *Applause*

[Gabz]

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

Thank you FReepers!!

$51 to go!!!

[ValerieUSA]

YEE HAW!!

[justshe]

Yours is outstanding TOO!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you!

Just in:

$50 from California
$50 from Texas
$25 from Canada

Thank you California, Texas and Canada!!

[Gabz]

$25 from Utah
$50 from Colorado

We're over the top!!

Thank you Utah and Colorado!!

Thank you FReepers and Lurkers!!!

Yahoo!!!

[CedarDave]

I HAVE to go potty!

WHEW!

[MinuteGal]

Let the drums roll out
Let the trumpets call
As the FReepers shout
Strike up the band!

Hear the cymbals play
Calling one and all
See the fireworks spray
Joy in FReeperland!

Leni

[Mo1]

GOT IT!!

Sounds of Fireworks ---->click here

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

[Jim Robinson]

Two more just in:

$60 from West Virginia
$20 from Missouri

Thank you West (by God) Virginia and Missouri!!

[SoDak]

They used to go on a long time, or perhaps it just used to seem like a long time. I've basically been on this site for a little while almost every day since I found it in the summer of '98. Getting people to be monthly, or dollar-a-day donors was a big step in the evolution of the site. What we need is some moneybags to endow Jim with a trust to keep the site cutting edge, like it is, without having to have freepathons. Jim? If I ever win the damn powerball, you'll be in bandwidth up to your ears *L*

[Mo1]

AMEN!!!

THANK YOU FREEPERS!!!

[Amore]

Yippee!

[Mo1]

For you Ed .. I'll find it .. don't know how .. don't know where

But I WILL find it .. LOL