Good advice.
A DDoS attack was precisely what I thought of yesterday when FR was down for major portions of the day.
I was wondering myself, because I could not get on until late afternoon yesterday.
Do we know for sure what took it down?
It’s still very slow for me today.Anyone else?
During Limbaugh’s drug daze, I wondered what would happen to conservative leadership if he fell off.
There was nobody at the time who could take his place. What if Rush just “went Galt” at that point?
Now, at least, there’s Mark Steyn...he could certainly take over...but before that, we had a single point of failure in the network.
With all due respect and appreciation to Jim and John “Thompson” =) — There is no backup mirror. freerepublic2 on yahoo is the Mark Belling/Davis equivalent!! If either/both of those two gentlemen “go Galt” or just get fed up with it, that’s it!
There must be a mirror system, geographically disparate, automatically failing-over in real time.
When I say “must” it means that for better or worse, FR is not just a fix, it is a critical lynch-pin in the American conservative movement.
And thus it is a strategic target for the 5th column. And for now, it’s such an easy target.
A DDoS attack was precisely what I thought of yesterday when FR was down for major portions of the day.
I do believe we've had them before, but yesterday wasn't one of those times, according to what Jim Robinson said. He reported it, on our official alternate site, that it was a server that crashed hard (as he put it). He also mentioned that if it couldn't be brought up (running again) that we might need to replace some of the hardware. Apparently they were able to get it up and running again.