Challenge: Crash RonPaul2008.com's Servers with Donations

[JoshLowry]

I received this note from a friend and wanted to pass it on.

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Hello everyone,

We need to help the campaign perform a $10 Donation Server STRESS TEST on November 11th from 7:00 to 8:00 PM eastern time.

Everyone needs to give just Ten Dollars on November 11th from 7:00 to 8:00 PM eastern time.


This server test has three purposes:



#1 To give RON PAUL the greatest number of small donations in a single hour (and thus more free media coverage).

#2 To lend an additional boost to the www.ThisNovember11th.com Veteran's Day fundraiser.

#3 To STRESS TEST the RON PAUL 2008 donation server leading up to the BOSTON TEA PARTY on December 16th -- http://www.teaparty07.com/.


Please schedule this $10 Dollar Donation event in your individual meetup groups.

The e-Campaign Director, Justine Lam, is aware of and supportive of this initative and has said that "Yes, I think we could handle it".

Now it is up to us to perform the $10 test to find out.

- AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN

 

[twister5400]

awesome. i'll do it. i'll send this to some other folks also.

 

[happyphilter]

ill do it. the server really does need a stress test

 

[ronpaulitician]

I'm in.

 

[American]

At least 10 dollars, maybe more if you can.

Good idea, also since no one is mentioning or really pushing this Nov 11th like we did the 5th. I like it

 

[jake]

sure, good idea, but this really needs to be pushed to get the server load higher than it was on the 5th.

good testing for the Tea Party, Dec 16th if you can pull it off

 

[Dave Wood]

This is a great idea for all 3 reasons.....I`m in!

 

[thegearbox]

And what was Nov 5th? Im sure that the 31,000 donations and probably some odd 200,000 viewers where enough stress on the system. Either way, it still gets people to donate a little. Sooo...whatever it takes I guess.

 

[Roxi]

sent to all of my meetups and added to the tulsa calendar

 

[jorger]

yup awesome idea.
sending to florida meetups.

the rEVOLution won't be stopped.

 

[Pete Kay]

How much are the credit card fees that he has to pay? A dollar? 50 cents? Donating money is always good, but innundating the website with thousands of small donations is a bad idea, because it costs the campaign money to process your donations.

 

[kylejack]

I will send multiple $10 donations plus a few bucks to cover the additional transaction costs I create.

 

[Pete Kay]

I just researched credit card fees and the amount charged is only 1.89 percent plus a 10 cent flat fee for each transaction. So for a 10 dollar donation thats just about 22 cents. I guess that's not too bad of a hit for each donation if my math is right.

 

[Pete]

I hope this message is going out to everybody who donated on the 5th.

Great idea, and could be news all by itself.

 

[Dlynne]

This is a great thing to do, but I can tell you that the servers are not up to handling the donations. My $1000 donation did not go through tn5, my second $100 donation did not go through. and I know of several others whose donations did not go through. We are re-donating on tea party day, but I wonder how many other donations never made it.

 

[Green Mountain Boy]

This is a great thing to do, but I can tell you that the servers are not up to handling the donations. My $1000 donation did not go through tn5, my second $100 donation did not go through. and I know of several others whose donations did not go through. We are re-donating on tea party day, but I wonder how many other donations never made it.

That is odd. It's the first I've heard of donations not going through. Did you check your credit card balance?

 

[terlinguatx]

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[JoshLowry]

bnmp

 

[Jobarra]

While Nov 5th was a good stress of the system, I think they're trying to find out the faults of the system with a small money bomb with max donors. Sure the servers handled 38000 people in 24 hours, but what will happen when there are 20000 donors in just one hour. Noone knows, so we'll find out. If there's a problem, the campaign as well as the grassroots people will need to fix it over the next month. Don't need to fix it the day of the tea party.

 

[Dlynne]

That is odd. It's the first I've heard of donations not going through. Did you check your credit card balance?

Yes, I checked the balance. It was a debit/credit card and it did not go through. I am not the only one. In fact, several other people mentioned the same thing on this forum. These are people in addition to the 3 that I know locally and personally.