Thank for reviving me!
Posted on 11/13/2008 3:37:03 PM PST by John Robinson
We were experiencing a database issue today that effectively froze the site content. It has been defrosted.
We've experienced numerous technical issues this past month. In an effort to handle increasing traffic, we've made upgrades to our internal structure that have rendered the site far more brittle than it ever was, coupled with general growing pains, coincidental hardware failures and a little foul play (at least one nasty denial of service attack) has seen the site down far too many hours this month. It's been frustrating for everybody involved and I apologize.
Just please come up with something b.o.-proof asap. - thanks!
Don’t apologize. Get some rest.
We all love y’all!
I have learned more about our government from visiting this website over the past 4 years than I *ever* learned in school or college—thank you for making that possible with relative ease. You make it look easy, but I know it must be hard reigning in all those wild hamsters and getting them to run on those wheels all at the same time to power FR! ;-)
Thank you, and as I used to tell my students, keep up the good work!
You guys are the absolute best but even the best have their trying moments.
As a developer and DBA, I really like Firebird the best, personally.
No worries, we can always troll at DU (ha ha).
Thanks for your great site.
Brittle? What does that mean?- - - - - - - - - -
It means Peanut Brittle! Yum!! :)
I noticed the tragic lack the ability for the world to enjoy my critique. They wept.
Thanks for the update, John.
You have NOTHING to apologize for.
Hang in there. It’s still a great site :)
I know what I'm doing at my job as well. But, on occasion I run into a situation when I'll go to someone and say, "Take a look at this. He's what I've done. What do you think?"
It's amazing sometimes what a second set of eyes can see.
I have confidence that all the new equipment will get settled in and things will smooth out. Thanks for all the hard work.
Good morning, you have earned your cup of coffee today! :)=^..^=
The attack problems are only going to get worse once the new administration comes into being. I would certainly hope our personal information is being kept in a very secure location. If that information got hacked, it could be very ugly, in the larger context of a full scale attack on the First Amendment by Obama’s thugs.
No need to apologize. We are very thankful for Free Republic.
That was the only logical conclusion I was able to draw.
Expect me to follow you around from thread to thread hitting the abuse button.
Seems like a rational thing to do.
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
Wow, I have a cyberstalker - How cool is that!
Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into this site, John. You will never know how much you, Jim, and this entire community mean to a great many of us!
God bless you & your loved ones, and if He is able I’ll ask Him/pray for Him to throw some “luck” your way in dealing with the DOS attacks, and the minor glitches, too! ;-)
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