It's Time for our Second Quarter FReepathon - Thread 2

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[Mo1]

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

[MonroeDNA]

Thanks, Glock. I don't know what to say!

But certainly post it as you see fit, and I am glad if I have somehow helped this site.

I was just telling the truth.

[MonroeDNA]

Phyto, it certainly helps! Thanks!

[EdReform]

Could you also post that in this thread?

[glock rocks]

I will post it over there.

[EdReform]

Thanks! I need to leave - will return late this evening. Have a great afternoon!

[glock rocks]

Thank you Phyto Chems !!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, Phyto Chems!

Just in:

$50 from New Mexico
$15 monthly from California
$25 from California

And here is a batch of checks that came in during the last few days:

$10 from California
$100 from New York
$50 from Ohio
$20 from Massachusetts
$50 from Alabama
$50 from California
$10 from California
$70 from Illinois
$50 from California
$20 from Ohio
$20 from Alabama
$30.37 from California
$10 from Washington
$25 from New York
$20 from Texas
$40 from California

Thank you all very much!!!

[glock rocks]

[Feiny]

Love that cartoon!

[glock rocks]

Just in:

$50 from New Mexico
$15 monthly from California
$25 from California

And here is a batch of checks that
came in during the last few days:

$10 from California
$100 from New York
$50 from Ohio
$20 from Massachusetts
$50 from Alabama
$50 from California
$10 from California
$70 from Illinois
$50 from California
$20 from Ohio
$20 from Alabama
$30.37 from California
$10 from Washington
$25 from New York
$20 from Texas
$40 from California

Thank you all very much !!!

[glock rocks]

i borrowed it from bmwcyle. too funny.

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, feinswinesuksass for your contribution and for joining the Monthly Donor Club!

[Mo1]

Thanks Bentfeather for stopping by and Bumping the Thread

Thank You Freepers from
Michigan
Pennsylvania
California
New York
Arkansas
Maryland
Michigan
North Carolina
Wisconsin
Arizona

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
South Carolina
monthly from Hawaii
Wisconsin
monthly from Utah
Never Never Land
Virginia
Illinois
New York
Oklahoma
North Carolina
Illinois
Oklahoma
Ohio
Never Never Land

[glock rocks]

feinswinesuksass

love your name

Thank you for your contribution
and for joining the Monthly Donor Club!

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
Never Never Land
Minnesota
Utah
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Virginia

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers from
California
Hawaii
Massachusetts
California

[Mo1]

WOW .... Thank You Freepers from Kentucky and Colorado!!!

[Mo1]

Thank You Phyto Chems !!

[firewalk]

Just bumping by...