“Did Jim/John R. move?”
No... But the Free Republic did. It is no longer self served as allowed to be perpetuated. It is now 3rd party hosted through Texas in the cloud and the Linode/Akamai Technologies DNS servers are in the EU.
I have no clue why there is a lack of transparency about this... It was a logical upgrade for many modern reasons.
https://www.wmtips.com/tools/ip/45.79.56.181#geo
Thanks for the tidbit. That explains the lack of the day long+ outages of the past. Knock on wood...
Yep, they went from a San Jose, CA data center physical server to Linode (now Akamai...both are US companies). And the TikTok legislation is specific to who owns the App/site/content. In the case of FR....Jim/John.