It's Time for our Second Quarter FReepathon - Thread 3

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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

[RottiBiz]

   Q2 2003 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	California	$5,095.93	155	$32.88	1,423	$3.58	$1,037.56	73
2	Florida	2,760.00	56	49.29	656	4.21	398.00	24
3	Texas	2,293.00	82	27.96	1,299	1.77	709.00	48
4	Illinois	1,801.00	46	39.15	351	5.13	205.00	15
5	Virginia	1,669.25	38	43.93	496	3.37	423.00	18
6	New York	1,445.00	42	34.40	509	2.84	238.00	14
7	Washington	1,305.00	43	30.35	368	3.55	170.00	11
8	Michigan	1,204.00	22	54.73	293	4.11	155.00	9
9	Ohio	1,176.25	39	30.16	342	3.44	471.00	10
10	Pennsylvania	1,137.00	33	34.45	420	2.71	195.00	12
11	Maryland	1,095.00	26	42.12	276	3.97	120.00	7
12	North Carolina	1,055.31	28	37.69	365	2.89	250.00	16
13	Connecticut	955.00	13	73.46	146	6.54	15.00	2
14	Missouri	889.00	19	46.79	258	3.45	103.00	7
15	Alabama	883.25	23	38.40	157	5.63	223.00	12
16	New Jersey	851.00	23	37.00	274	3.11	155.00	6
17	Massachusetts	816.00	27	30.22	214	3.81	130.00	8
18	Wisconsin	760.00	31	24.52	210	3.62	160.00	10
19	Minnesota	695.00	16	43.44	192	3.62	110.00	6
20	Arizona	675.25	14	48.23	265	2.55	75.00	6
21	Kentucky	640.00	9	71.11	139	4.60	10.00	1
22	Georgia	625.00	22	28.41	345	1.81	135.00	8
23	Colorado	565.00	16	35.31	235	2.40	145.00	9
24	Iowa	540.00	12	45.00	115	4.70	15.00	1
25	Kansas	455.00	12	37.92	135	3.37	85.00	3
26	Louisiana	440.00	13	33.85	144	3.06	50.00	3
27	Tennessee	420.00	13	32.31	269	1.56	53.00	5
28	South Carolina	415.50	13	31.96	155	2.68	13.50	3
29	Arkansas	405.00	12	33.75	92	4.40	35.00	4
30	Indiana	400.00	14	28.57	215	1.86	40.00	3
31	Oregon	338.00	9	37.56	172	1.97	68.00	5
32	New Mexico	315.00	7	45.00	75	4.20	30.00	3
33	Mississippi	300.00	7	42.86	85	3.53	30.00	3
34	Utah	264.00	8	33.00	65	4.06	90.00	4
35	Canada	235.00	5	47.00	132	1.78	70.00	2
36	Idaho	210.00	4	52.50	68	3.09	45.00	2
37	Oklahoma	190.00	10	19.00	170	1.12	75.00	8
38	Montana	170.00	3	56.67	25	6.80
39	Maine	170.00	7	24.29	64	2.66	10.00	1
40	Nevada	155.00	4	38.75	88	1.76	10.00	1
41	Alaska	150.00	4	37.50	66	2.27	241.00	5
42	Hawaii	145.00	6	24.17	32	4.53	15.00	2
43	West Virginia	140.00	3	46.67	56	2.50	10.00	1
44	New Hampshire	130.00	3	43.33	81	1.60	30.00	1
45	Armed Forces - Pacific	120.00	3	40.00			10.00	1
46	District of Columbia	110.00	2	55.00	26	4.23	10.00	1
47	Nebraska	108.00	5	21.60	66	1.64	3.00	1
48	Chile	100.00	2	50.00	6	16.67
49	Sweden	100.00	1	100.00	11	9.09
50	Kuwait	100.00	1	100.00	4	25.00
51	Rhode Island	75.00	2	37.50	21	3.57
52	Armed Forces - Europe	75.00	3	25.00			25.00	2
53	Vermont	70.00	5	14.00	22	3.18	43.00	4
54	Delaware	70.00	3	23.33	24	2.92
55	Netherlands	70.00	2	35.00	7	10.00
56	Ireland	50.00	1	50.00	20	2.50
57	Turkey	50.00	1	50.00	6	8.33
58	Wyoming	50.00	1	50.00	22	2.27	30.00	1
59	South Dakota	40.00	3	13.33	35	1.14	20.00	2
60	North Dakota	30.00	1	30.00	21	1.43
61	United Kingdom	30.00	1	30.00	94	0.32	30.00	1
62	Panama	25.00	1	25.00	4	6.25
63	Israel	20.00	1	20.00	27	0.74
64	China	20.00	1	20.00	14	1.43
65	Italy	20.00	1	20.00	6	3.33
66	Germany	10.00	1	10.00	29	0.34
	South Korea						10.00	1
Never Never Land		2,167.00	72	30.10			160.00	9
67 locations total		$39,888.74	1,106	$36.07	13,808	$2.89	$6,989.06	415

[glock rocks]

on comet

on cupid

[justshe]

WOO HOO!!!!!

Am I reading this correctly......1106 folks donating?

One step at a time........one step at a time.

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$50 from Missouri
$50 from Ohio
$20 from California
$50 from Texas

Thank you FReepers!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Getting to know youuuuuuu

Getting to know all about youuuuuuuuu

[justshe]

THANK YOU !

$50 from Missouri
$50 from Ohio
$20 from California
$50 from Texas

[kayak]

Bumping for dollars .....

[justshe]

We are |<-->| close...........come on FREEPERS!!!!!!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Why, thank you.

Glock rocks REALLY thanks you.

(heheeeeeeeeee)

[Jim Robinson]

You got 'em!

$15 just in from Michigan!

And that makes it LESS than $2,000 to go!!

Thank you Michigan!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Jim, if I had it, I'd flat out give you the $2,000 right now.

I'm so sorry I don't.

[Jim Robinson]

$100 in from Texas!

Thank you Texas!!

[glock rocks]

Just in:

$50 from Missouri
$50 from Ohio
$20 from California
$50 from Texas

Thank you FReepers!!

[glock rocks]

$100 in from Texas!

Thank you Texas!!

[glock rocks]

$15 just in from Michigan!

And that makes it LESS than $2,000 to go!!

Thank you Michigan!!!

[glock rocks]

(best Elvis voice) thank you very much.

[justshe]

THANK YOU !

$15 from Michigan!
$100 from Texas

[kayak]

Yippety-skippety!

[glock rocks]

are we there yet?

are we there yet?

are we there yet?

are we there yet?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Scaaaaarrrrrryyyyyy......I could "hear" you!