Posted on 01/23/2017 6:44:04 PM PST by big bad easter bunny
Freerepublic was down during not the most important time of Trump but certainly the most interesting time with no explanation of why, personally I am disappointed of having been given zero explanation, this site is sorta about exposing what went wrong. So if we don't get to hear why one of the most important websites was off line, we should at the very least should have a conversation on what to do to prevent it again from happening, Drudge has gone down a few times recently, he has way more than 250K yearly, we should, in my opinion discuss ways to keep freerepublic up under all attacks!
Explanation was given. But you must have missed it.
No explanation? I saw several. Maybe Jim should have personally pinged you?
Multiple reload requests can't be helping the workload much.
YMMV.
Have loved you since time immemorial, BBEB, but...EXPLANATION..?
You make it sound like Jim should be chilling our salad forks, sorta.
Eh...contingency planning is GREAT but...let’s sorta keep it all in perspective.
When it first went down I googled it, and there were even people screaming stuff like, “WHAT ARE WE PAYING FOR...?!”
What is the % of free-loaders here, maybe 98%..? I’m mostly including myself, there, and I’m not proud of that.
Again, contingency planning is fine, but....let’s tread really, REALLLY lightly here, shall we..?
Cue Roseanna RoseannaDanna.
It was disappointing, as a paying member, to see FR down for the whole weekend. Incredible. Wasn’t it also down on or around the election? Where is disaster recover and rollover? I can understand being down for a few minutes or hours, but days?
All this information is available on a very special website. Freerepublic.com.
Is good to know to read tovarich.
I would agree to this.
Absolutely. Freerepublic 2.0.
Like the first, but more powerful, sleeker, and faster. Maybe even interactive, in some way.
But I like the current version, very much. More than I even realized.
That was a huge eye-opener for me, not to have FR for two full days.
It was like “what do I do to see what is happening”?
I had to go to actual news sites, many of which have entirely different viewpoints.
Well almost all of them have different viewpoints, in fact. Even Fox (although they seem to be much improved now)
I am very, very, very glad we have FR.
Bigtime. Good job Thompson and crew.
the beebers aren’t going to stune themselves
I am just very thankful that the site is back up. If the site owner wants share what happened that is his business.
BTW, I never saw update on Facebook or elsewhere. My wife often says I don't see things right in front of me. So, if there is one, please share. Thanks!
From FR on FB, posted on 1/21:
Great News! Heard from John a little while ago. He has the server physically running. He’s going to backup the data and run integrity tests before putting it online, We could be up and running very soon if everything checks out, Sorry, no clues to why it crashed. Nothing unusual in the logs. It’s one of our newer servers, but this is twice that it crashed “for no reason whatsoever” so it’s now destined to be replaced. Prayers up that all checks out and maybe we’ll be up soon.
For the 2 days it was down?
My life sucked.
If FR were smoke signals sent up by TONTO, I’d still call that a win.
It’s THAT far ahead of the MSM, that pack of hair-helmeted big-city liars.
It’s a very special family, here.
It was a nuclear chain explosion at one of the main FR server farms. Literally thousands of Free Republic IT personnel were killed, but here you are whining that you didn’t see an explanation while there are orphans and widows out there who can’t even bury their loved ones?
See post 5. Pete was kind enough to give one example. There are more but I’m on my phone so I can’t right now.
98% free-loader posters? That can not be??
No wonder Freepathons go on and on and on.
Traffic was light when she went down
Me too...
The horror
The horror...
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