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

[Mo1]

I Like that one .. my I borrow it?

[CedarDave]

Thanks for the fireworks. 'Nite.

(BTW, you can put Freeper Chick ostrich back in her pen until next quarter!!)

[Gabz]

$60 from West Virginia
$20 from Missouri

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

[Gabz]

....like it is, without having to have freepathons......

But the FReepathons are so much fun - we've got to have them, at least once in a while......

[Mo1]

Still looking .. but here is a tease

The Monkey & The Fiddle -- Cajun ---->click here

[justshe]

GOD BLESS OUR MILITARY
AND
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

PRAYERS FOR THE FAMILIES THAT HAVE LOST A LOVED ONE,
AND MAY GOD PROTECT ALL WHO TOIL TO KEEP US SAFE.

[Jen]

WoooooHooooo!! Time to Celebrate another Successful FReepathon!

<=== Launch Fireworks

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Go for it, it's a good pic.

[Jim Robinson]

Two more:

$50 from Never Never Land
$20 from Washington

Thank you FReepers!!

[blam]

Congratulations and thanks to all who helped.

[tutstar]

something funny for yall....LOL

I email my friends next door FR stuff alot and tonight he says...If you pay to keep Free Republic going then shouldn't it be Paid Republic?.....Honestly it was really funny!

[Jen]

Fireworks bump!!

[MinuteGal]

Your # 767 - Sounded like our crackerjack Air Force in the Battle of Baghdad!

Music to my ears!

Leni

[EdReform]

That was great!! How about something by Balfa Toujours?

[NormsRevenge]

God Bless America and God Bless FRee Republic and the Robinson families.

We ALL Thank You from the mountains to the seas!!!

Thanks, Jim and John!

[EdReform]

Hi Jen!

[Gabz]

$50 from Never Never Land
$20 from Washington

Thank you FReepers!!

[justshe]

Night all....and thanks for all your hard work!

[Mo1]

DREAM OF AN IMAGE -- Cajun ---->click here

[EdReform]

Well, that's all for me! Good Night everyone!

Thanks to ALL FReepers and Lurkers who Support Free Republic!