Sunday is probably the best day to take down problem servers and get them fixed.
Not everyone realizes it, but FreeRepublic stores an ENORMOUS amount of data on its servers, going back years. I don’t know of any other forum that attempts anything like it. Most of them clean stuff out fairly often in order to speed things up cheaply, and then it’s lost for good. FR also accommodates a lot of visuals, and that takes up server space, too.
But it’s great to have all these things.
Actually, most of the images on FR are hosted on other (non-FR) servers.