Posted on 10/11/2012 8:11:29 PM PDT by hole_n_one
Yet again, FR fails the big LIVE THREAD test.
How does what is supposed to be the premiere conservative site on the 'net continue to fail?
I would have expanded on this except it took forever to get this simple post through the muck and molasses that we have to wade thru on night's like this.
(1) You yourself are quite the kvetcher!
(2) Uh-oh. I see someone didn't read his grammar lesson.
(3) Oh, the irony!
Going to bed feeling superior now? Good.
Looks like somebody has a complex or something.
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!
If you haven’t figured it out yet, you never will.
It went down completely for me about 20 minutes before the debate and wasn’t up at all until about two hours afterwards.
Maybe one day you'll get to sit at the big table.
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.
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.
But then you also know that Twitter, with something that’s now a huge budget, is sometimes getting all gummed up :).
A substantial hole! Like the administration!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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