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

[terilyn]

THANK YOU

Grampa Dave
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hunkOfBurninLuv

[Andante]

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.

Wow! That's a big savings! How much does bandwidth run under the new contract?

Is there a budget posted somewhere that gives a breakdown of the monthly expenses?

...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!

Cool! Is there a minimun donation required for directory space?

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, visualops!

Latest in:

$10 monthly from South Dakota
$100 from Florida
$50 from Arizona
$50 from Ohio
$25 from Ohio
$100 from Georgia
$20 from California

Thank you FReepers!!

[NautiNurse]

Florida pays to play

[NormsRevenge]

Hi There!!! I like this pic.

Tom Daschle and Jim McDermott come to mind, for some reason.

Donate and Help Keep FRee Republic the Bestest!!!

[LowOiL]

I'll have ya a Paypal pledge here in a few minutes. Thank again for providing the best forum on the net.

Smile
LowOiL

[Howlin]

You're paying for the whole state? :-)

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers From
Florida
Pennsylvania
Virginia
New Hampshire
California
North Carolina
Indiana
Florida
North Carolina
Never Never Land
Texas
monthly from Virginia
Minnesota
monthly from Florida
monthly from South Korea
California
California
Washington
Maryland
Alabama
California
Never Never Land
Virginia
Maryland
Connecticut
monthly from California
Florida
Florida
Maine
monthly from North Carolina
Texas
monthly from California
New Jersey
California
New York
California
Michigan
Texas
Texas
monthly from Texas
Washington
Alabama
monthly from Texas
New York

[terilyn]

THANK YOU

Texas
Virginia
Oklahoma
Florida
New York
Never Never Land
Colorado

[petuniasevan]

The new feature where donors can store files sounds great!
I would make use of this indeed!


Thanks to you, Jim; and John, Tami, and all the folks who make Free Republic the best site on the web!

[NautiNurse]

You're paying for the whole state? :-)

Egads--what have I gotten myself into this time?

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
Wisconsin
Oregon
monthly from Never Never Land
Michigan
Wisconsin

[Mo1]

Thank You The_Pickle

[NautiNurse]

Fabulous idea with the server space! Thank you.

[Mo1]

Thank You KarlInOhio

[petuniasevan]

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	Wisconsin	$230.00	8	$28.75	210	$1.10	$150.00	9
2	Kentucky	200.00	1	200.00	139	1.44	10.00	1
3	Texas	195.00	9	21.67	1,299	0.15	646.00	43
4	Georgia	185.00	6	30.83	345	0.54	115.00	6
5	Ohio	175.25	6	29.21	342	0.51	455.00	7
6	Michigan	165.00	3	55.00	293	0.56	125.00	6
7	New York	160.00	5	32.00	509	0.31	188.00	11
8	Florida	145.00	3	48.33	656	0.22	358.00	21
9	Illinois	141.00	6	23.50	351	0.40	180.00	12
10	California	140.00	9	15.56	1,423	0.10	786.56	56
11	North Carolina	90.00	3	30.00	365	0.25	230.00	13
12	Arizona	80.25	2	40.12	265	0.30	70.00	5
13	Alabama	75.25	3	25.08	157	0.48	193.00	10
14	Virginia	65.25	3	21.75	496	0.13	418.00	17
15	Tennessee	65.00	4	16.25	269	0.24	53.00	5
16	Arkansas	50.00	1	50.00	92	0.54	25.00	3
17	Oregon	50.00	1	50.00	172	0.29	60.00	3
18	Kansas	50.00	1	50.00	135	0.37	60.00	2
19	Oklahoma	50.00	1	50.00	170	0.29	40.00	4
20	Pennsylvania	45.00	3	15.00	420	0.11	185.00	11
21	Canada	35.00	2	17.50	132	0.27	20.00	1
22	Utah	30.00	1	30.00	65	0.46	70.00	3
23	Maryland	30.00	2	15.00	276	0.11	80.00	5
24	Louisiana	30.00	2	15.00	144	0.21	50.00	3
25	Indiana	30.00	2	15.00	215	0.14	30.00	2
26	New Jersey	25.00	1	25.00	274	0.09	130.00	5
27	Washington	25.00	1	25.00	368	0.07	185.00	11
28	Israel	20.00	1	20.00	27	0.74
29	Missouri	10.00	1	10.00	258	0.04	95.00	6
30	Colorado	10.00	1	10.00	235	0.04	95.00	7
31	Vermont	10.00	1	10.00	22	0.45	33.00	3
32	South Dakota	10.00	1	10.00	35	0.29	10.00	1
33	Hawaii	5.00	1	5.00	32	0.16	5.00	1
	Minnesota						70.00	4
	Connecticut						5.00	1
	Mississippi						30.00	3
	Nebraska						3.00	1
	Nevada						10.00	1
	New Hampshire						30.00	1
	New Mexico						20.00	2
	West Virginia						10.00	1
	Wyoming						30.00	1
	District of Columbia						10.00	1
	South Korea						10.00	1
	United Kingdom						30.00	1
	Idaho						45.00	2
	Iowa						15.00	1
	Massachusetts						130.00	8
	South Carolina						10.50	2
	Armed Forces - Pacific						10.00	1
	Alaska						241.00	5
Never Never Land		120.00	5	24.00			145.00	7
34 locations total		$2,747	100	$27.47	11,997	$0.23	$6,005.06	337

[Mo1]

Oops... wrong site... ;0)

LOL!!

[terilyn]

THANK YOU

Amore

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, LowOil!

Just in:

$45 from Alabama
$36 from New Jersey
$10 from Never Never Land
$50 from Michigan
$20 from Wisconsin

Thank you FReepers!!

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
Louisiana
Never Never Land
New York
Ohio
North Carolina
Indiana