What has happened to make FreeRepublic so slow?

Vanity Question | 01/24/2009 | Swordmaker

[Swordmaker]

I have noticed that FR has become abysmally slow in response and page loading in the past day or so. I've noticed a few responses in the threads where other Freepers mention in passing the slowness. I checked it on several of my client's locations. Everywhere I brought up FR was slow.

Sometimes takes up to 30 seconds to load the browsing pages. Moving to a topic, is a bit faster but not much.

I also noticed last night that doing title searches that used to bring up pages of responses now only bring up less than a page.

John, Jim, what's going on? Are we being hit by a Denial of Service attack?

[svcw]

Don’t know. For me its only FR.

[Eye of Unk]

I decided to reduce my posts to almost zero the last two days.

[litehaus]

Yepper, slower than ever, other destinations same (Quick) however, just FR slowing to a crawl now... Dunno what causing it......Hope Jim gets it solved....

[Swordmaker]

Get a Mac.....

I've GOT a Mac... ;^)>

Everywhere else is really quick. I just upgraded from DSL to AT&Ts Uverse... going from around 568Kb per second to 6Mb pers second... and FreeRepublic SLOWED DOWN!

[lilycicero]

Ditto....super slow mo

[mamelukesabre]

This is nothing. You shoulda tried using FR about 12 hours ago.

[shield]

I’ve been at other sites and they are fast/normal...FR is under attack by BO’s thugs.

[silverleaf]

balky and slow slow slower
going on 3 days now
I have FIOS

[shield]

People on dial up are screwed doubt they can even pull up FR....

[madison10]

There’s just more of us here drowning our sorrows in typed conversation these days.

[Swordmaker]

This is nothing. You shoulda tried using FR about 12 hours ago.

I don't know what FR was doing then, but I was fast then... fast asleep, that is.

[cruise_missile]

It’s because of a Black Barry virus.

[count-your-change]

Posters are using too many BIG words. And there's too many misspelled words so the guy that looks up stuff in the dictionary is really busy.

[LiberConservative]

Yep. Slow for me, too. All day today. It's annoying. My guess would be a subtle DOS bug from an 0bama disciple. We already know what 0 thinks of Rush. I think we need to make an example of whoever is responsible.

[bethybabes69]

Definitely lots of latency with FR lately, I got some 404's the other day too.

Maybe this is a good sign, that people want to move onto more Conservative opinions, or maybe it's a DOS issue, maybe the Moderators could look at FR's dns records and look for requests to see if some scriptkiddy is pinging the FR servers.

[Orange1998]

Unbearably slow. I wonder if FR trying to save a buck or two or other issues beyond control.

[TChad]

Reloading this page averages about 18 seconds in Firefox on a broadband connection. I have seen none of the dreaded proxy errors after posting, but FR is certainly slower than usual.

[Kadric]

Actually it looks about the same to dial up. Slow as normal.

[Bahbah]

Lovely home page.

[LuciaMia]

It’s not constant. Usually the page loads fine. But every so often it just stalls.