Beyond frustrating!
FR has been having performance issues for about the last month.
I think the extra attention due to the situation in Tuscon is making it even worse.
Kind of too bad, since the Left is trying to make it seem that the whacko is a Tea Party guy when the objective facts make it clear he is a Left-wing commie who wanted revenge for the Congresswoman voting against his left-wing agenda.
I hope John gets it going back to normal mode soon.
And that reminds me — time to donate (and JR has NEVER held performance as an incentive!).
Last night, Jim wrote,
I have no idea. Last time it was a problem in the database. The time before that a server fried. More than once it’s been DOS attacks. This one looks like some sort of logjam.
I’m sure John will get it cleared up eventually, but this is a huge complex multi-server, multi-user system with lots of hardware and software that all has to mesh perfectly to work at maximum performance levels.
Something’s always going to snap. Never know when or what or if it’s natural or DOS. Lots of people hate us and would love to see us go belly-up.
War is hell. So are computer systems. If it can go wrong it will.
FREEPERS ROCK!!!
WE ARE STILL ONLINE!!!
I think Greg West and his Mormon warriors have launched their attack!
:p
Its slow at my home connection, and sometimes at the office.
No other websites are slow (home or office),
so it must be server related.
I’m running mozilla and usually have 6 or 8 web pages open.
All others respond quickly, not free republic.
Bummer.....
I do not know if you guys know about The Yahoo freerepublic2 ??
It is a place to go to find out what is going on if you have trouble posting etc..
You will have to join Yahoo to join FR2
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/
I think they’re under cyberattack (forces of evil), or the bandwith is overloaded in my situation. Keep the faith!
This site is basically unusable now. Too bad, I’ve had a great time here for many years but maybe it’s time to move on now...
Something has been up with FR for about six months. I have figured that there are some hackers connected with more liberal sites make it a point of honor to mess with this site as much as possible. There don’t seem to be as many users as before, so maybe the server is bogged down with malware.
Seemed like the problems started the other day, (immediately) following Duncan Hunter’s online live interview thread.
Almost to the minute.
I figured it’s Chicom hackers, trying to keep people from reading what Congressman Hunter had to say about trade policy, and China.
When you’re not sure if it’s just you, try this site:
It’s actually called “Down for everyone or just me?”
Regards,
In a word, YES!!
Like watching paint dry.
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Very good responses now at the moment...
Hope it lasts.
This happens every time we get big news events lately, the system gets over loaded and then we get LOTS of USELESS VANITY POST and photos SLOWING DOWN THE SYSTEM even more.
I tried to get on after hearing of the shootings in AZ. No go until just a few minutes ago.