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Another miserable FR Live Thread failure.
me | 10/11/12 | hole_n_one

Posted on 10/11/2012 8:11:29 PM PDT by hole_n_one

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To: Revolting cat!
(1) Threads consisting of nothing more than kvetching,
(2) Posts consisting of nothing more than something like the word: “Agreed”, or “I agree”,
(3) What I already mentioned: illiteracy. Every fool, every drunk in the gutter has an opinion. And every other fool is convinced that the world is anxious to experience the vomit of his ungrammatically expressed opinion.

(1) You yourself are quite the kvetcher!
(2) Uh-oh. I see someone didn't read his grammar lesson.
(3) Oh, the irony!

81 posted on 10/11/2012 10:36:36 PM PDT by ru4liberty
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To: ru4liberty

Going to bed feeling superior now? Good.


82 posted on 10/11/2012 10:39:05 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: jusduat; Revolting cat!
Did you notice how that filthy litter box smelling cat failed to mention and embrace the term mangy?

Looks like somebody has a complex or something.

83 posted on 10/11/2012 10:42:54 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Squawk 8888

Maybe FR needs to move to a cheaper and more reliable solution like Squarespace - UNLIMITED bandwidth and UNLIMITED storage and 24/7 support for $16.00 a month!


84 posted on 10/11/2012 10:46:09 PM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: hole_n_one

If you haven’t figured it out yet, you never will.


85 posted on 10/11/2012 10:48:42 PM PDT by Despot of the Delta
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To: hole_n_one
A hole. Absence of substance.


86 posted on 10/11/2012 10:52:37 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: re_nortex

It went down completely for me about 20 minutes before the debate and wasn’t up at all until about two hours afterwards.


87 posted on 10/11/2012 10:55:28 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Revolting cat!
Once again, like the years before, you are going to have to sit at the kiddie table at this year's FR Christmas Dinner.

Maybe one day you'll get to sit at the big table.

88 posted on 10/11/2012 11:06:21 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one

Since FR is the best site on the web, I am sure the whole www world came here for the debate - or tried to.

I mean you can’t expect one site to handle the WHOLE WIDE WORLD at ONE TIME.


89 posted on 10/11/2012 11:15:18 PM PDT by PraiseTheLord
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To: US_MilitaryRules

I’m wondering what kind of database is running in the background here. If it’s Oracle, I’ve seen that abomination kill whole government projects - no kidding.

And at time, looking at the routes would seem to indicate slowdowns outside FR.


90 posted on 10/11/2012 11:18:13 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: goodnesswins

But then you also know that Twitter, with something that’s now a huge budget, is sometimes getting all gummed up :).


91 posted on 10/11/2012 11:23:00 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: Revolting cat!

A substantial hole! Like the administration!


92 posted on 10/11/2012 11:25:03 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: Revolting cat!

93 posted on 10/11/2012 11:42:10 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Utmost Certainty
How well does memcache work with Perl? At least that’s what script lang this site is largely written in AFAIK.

memcache is a service, like http: http://memcached.org/

So, you simply need a client API. And there are many:

https://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/Clients

I’d also wonder if Perl is more server-intensive than something like PHP.

Perl and PHP are both interpreted languages. There really isn't enough difference between the two to be perceptible to the end-user, as long as there were no serious implementation errors.

94 posted on 10/12/2012 4:31:36 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: MrShoop
agree with you that akamai/cloudflare aren't the right kinds of solutions, but once a page of posts fills out (gets to 50), it is static. It doesn't change, doesn't look different depending on who is viewing it. The pages here are great candidates for caching.

You can change the length of a page of posts. So, it has to be generated each time, with a query to the database.

Even simple filesystem caching would probably work.

The problem with a simple filesystem would be concurrency. You would have to serialize writes. And, once you create a lot of individual files, you introduce new problems with the metadata.

A reverse proxy cache like Varnish would probably take some of the heat off.

I think FR is already using squid as a reverse proxy, based on some of the errors that I've seen. That may have been in the past.

95 posted on 10/12/2012 4:36:49 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Indeed, all user authentication data and the most recent week of posts would probably fit easily in a few gigabytes of RAM. The challenge is how to architect access to it.

Memcache is relatively easy to use as a layer between the application layer and the database layer. That's not the most efficient implementation, but it's not a wholesale re-architecture effort.

96 posted on 10/12/2012 4:41:06 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: hole_n_one
I don't know the answer either. Every time something is going on ...debate etc. FR is unavailable. I think it is because the site growth outpaces capacity. Especially in this kind of an election year too. BUT...this has been an ongoing issue Freepathon after Freepathon....

FR runs pretty clean and lean, but I wonder if there are some features that could be ‘turned off’ on nights like last night.

I know election day or night I won't even bother visiting FR...I won't be able to get on...so why frustrate myself?

I go here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/ , but even being on this alternative isn't effective. Most folks are just posting complaints, instead of starting a new ‘live debate thread.’ Or perhaps WE as FReepers should anticipate this issue for the next debate and say Freepers East of the Mississippi use the yahoo group and West of the Mississippi use FR. For the last debate we could switch it up.

So instead of complaining....lets find a workable alternative for now!

97 posted on 10/12/2012 4:58:46 AM PDT by EBH (0bama is guilty of willful neglect of duty.)
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To: EBH

The one and only solution is for those who actually own and operate FR to make it more reliable.

So far they have not chosen to do this.


98 posted on 10/12/2012 9:05:04 AM PDT by epic stache
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To: hole_n_one
I couldn't get on last night from 9PM and beyond 2 AM. Tried www.lucianne.com too and had the same failure. This morning this was posted to front page of lucianne.com

LDOTTER NOTE: Hit again! Our apologies for last night's crash. Thousands got on anyway. Looks like the same wily Chinese hackers have targeted us again. We're not alone. We hear our friends at FreeRepublic got a DOS attack as well. Luis beats them back but they come in droves like in the old movies.

99 posted on 10/12/2012 9:20:00 AM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
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To: hole_n_one
I couldn't get on last night from 9PM and beyond 2 AM. Tried www.lucianne.com too and had the same failure. This morning this was posted to front page of lucianne.com

LDOTTER NOTE: Hit again! Our apologies for last night's crash. Thousands got on anyway. Looks like the same wily Chinese hackers have targeted us again. We're not alone. We hear our friends at FreeRepublic got a DOS attack as well. Luis beats them back but they come in droves like in the old movies.

100 posted on 10/12/2012 9:26:18 AM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
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