It's Time for our Second Quarter FReepathon

Donate to FR via Secure Server ^ | March 7, 2003 | Jim Robinson

[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

[mystery-ak]

Keep an eye on him at all times, you know who might be looking for him.

[backhoe]

Check's goin' out as soon as the wife goes to work tomorrow... got to slip this stuff under the radar...

[terilyn]

THANK YOU

eureka!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, Backhoe!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, HunkOfBurninLuv! Welcome aboard!

$10 from Texas
$20 from Virginia
$50 from Oklahoma
$15 from Florida
$25 from New York
$20 from Never Never Land
$10 from Colorado

Thank you FReepers!!

[terilyn]

THANK YOU

JeanS

[eureka!]

An aw shucks bump. T'was nothing...

[Jim Robinson]

Hmmmm... it seems to be working. Please try it again. Thanks.

[eureka!]

Welcome aboard. Me, I lurked for over two years. Like you, jumped in during a fundraiser. Donated every quarter since then, though lost productivity at work dwarfs my donations (I'm self employed). Again, welcome to the fray...

[Amore]

Thanks for your nice e mail thanking ME for my donation! I am such a cheapskate that you have no idea what high praise my donations are. :- )
But, kind of seriously, who amongst us here could get through the war without having Free Republic as an outlet? I was away for a while, but it's so great to be here at this historic time. Thank YOU.

[Jim Robinson]

Oh, by the way, make sure you're using the URL for our secure server:

https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/

We're no longer using the old link.

[backhoe]

You bet, Mr. Jim- my best to you & yours!

[Jhoffa_]

Bump for the Freepathon!

[Howlin]

I knew you were a devil!

[FreedomPoster]

Welcome aboard!

Need to go upstairs and get my credit card.

[terilyn]

THANK YOU

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[terilyn]

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[BamaGirl]

Hey Yall,

Just wondering, do yall prefer cash, check, or credit card?

BamaGirl

[terilyn]

THANK YOU

The_Pickle

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