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

[Brad’s Gramma]

WHAT??????

[ValerieUSA]

I don't have cable!!!

[steveegg]

You could've included a "barf alert" (just lost my dinner)

[Brad’s Gramma]

No cable here, either.

[b4its2late]

Hey Mo... 10 spot in the mail to JR..... b4

[Mo1]

Here .. go to the 2nd screen and click on C-span1 on the list

http://www.ejsmithweb.com/fr/allmedia_v2.asp

[steveegg]

Call yourselves lucky (unless you want to watch Fox News)

[Mo1]

See post 486

[steveegg]

Hey Mo... 10 spot in the mail to JR..... b4

Thank you b4

[Mo1]

Thank You b4its2late for all your support !

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you very much, b4its2late!

And just in:

$50 from Indiana
$20 from Illinois
$10 monthly from Wisconsin

Thank you FReepers!!

[ValerieUSA]

almost raining bump

[Mo1]

He is such a lying sack of ()*$&(#)#@(*$

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yep. I wish I could get FOX ONLY!

Hmmmmm

[glock rocks]

And just in:

$50 from Indiana
$20 from Illinois
$10 monthly from Wisconsin

Thank you FReepers!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

I did. Yech, blech, ick. I left.

Thanks.

[Mo1]

Thank You Freepers
from Indiana
from Illinois
monthly from Wisconsin

[steveegg]

That's why I wanted a "barf alert" appended to your call to find C-SPAM on the cable dial

[steveegg]

And just out...

"Midwest thank you"s to Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin (monthly).

[steveegg]

For me, it's Fox News, Fox Sports Net, FX, Speed Channel (owned by Fox), Discovery Wings and that's about it.