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Spring 2004 Hardware Fundraiser

topic 90 · 10 responses
~terry Sat, Nov 1, 2003 (14:48) seed
We are beginning our November pledge drive today with a goal of getting a new video server on line to show media clips, videos, movies and mpg files. We want to get ready now for the broadband era. I'll have more details. We'll call this our Fall Pledge Drive and will run till we reach our goal.
~terry Sat, Nov 1, 2003 (14:49) #1
Our main page to go to help out is http://spring.net/contribute
~MarciaH Sat, Nov 29, 2003 (14:55) #2
OK, I'll do it!!! What is new? I had to get in frojm Google. Have things changed or has my PC been more messed up than usual?
~MarciaH Sat, Nov 29, 2003 (18:08) #3
I know what the problem was. I still had this computer configured for LAN. I had to reset lots of programs for access. *sigh*
~terry Sun, Nov 30, 2003 (20:59) #4
Whew! Glad you're back with us! You're the woman!
~MarciaH Mon, Dec 22, 2003 (17:29) #5
Donation sent. Merry Christmas fronm Geo!
~terry Wed, Dec 24, 2003 (09:23) #6
Thank you so much Marci! Merry Christmas!
~terry Fri, Mar 26, 2004 (12:31) #7
This message is primarily to Geo and the rest of the Spring, I acknowledge the generous contributions made by Drooleurs during the Fall Pledge Drive. We recently had a call from our "colo" or colocation facility that we needed to replace a motherboard. It turned out we did not need a motherboard after further checks. Had it been a motherboard, the Spring would have been down for 3-4 days. So, we're having a fund raiser to raise the money to keep a spare motherboard on hand to reduce our downtime in case of a motherboard failure to hours instead of days. We also had one of the six hard drives in Spring crash and it needs replacing as this drive is our backup safety net and we're limping along without it now. Here is what we need to be able to come back online quickly in case of a real failure of the motherboard, a cpu or memory module. And the cost of the replacement hard drive. 405.00 P3TDDE Supermicro Motherboard 109.00 512k memory module 95.00 IBM Hard Drive 120 mb 609.00 total Please send paypal contributions to bank@spring.net Or mail your checks / money orders to The Spring 182 Clover Rd Cedar Creek, TX 78612 With your help, I can build an effective safety net to protect our server against hardware failure. We had our wake up call, now it's time to really prepare!
~MarciaH Thu, Apr 8, 2004 (07:31) #8
Check paypal again... :)
~MarciaH Thu, Apr 8, 2004 (07:35) #9
Please give us the URL for the bank@spring.net so we can use PayPal. Otherwise it goes to generic spring.net. Suggestions?
~terry Thu, Apr 15, 2004 (07:09) #10
Try clicking this link or click this button: We're trying to cover the last mile. I have two servers up and running and am working on a third server for triple rudundant crash protection and robustness. We're getting serious about backups and data protection. We lost our main server and came back up relatively unscathed, but not as smoothly as I would have liked. You can't do enough disaster preparedness. And this hardware special fund drive supports that.
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