Posted on 09/08/2025 6:28:44 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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Nothing makes you appreciate what you have until it's gone does it?
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....any idea what happened?
or how to get info when it’s dowwn?
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Did there not use to be a backup or alternative site that one could go to if FR went down? It’s been ages since I’ve thought about that but I sure was wondering during the last day how one would get any information about something when the thing you want information about doesn’t work.....
"There was a message up on FB. I am not on that site, but found it using a Google search."
Yeah I went to a couple of those sites.....one allows for comments and I saw one from JimRobinson himself saying that were working on it.....I knew then it was just a waiting period.
Me too!
CHECK
There was a message up on FB. I am not on that site, but found it using a Google search.
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Don’t use FB or google but regardless, I couldn’t find anything when doing a search other than plenty of down detectors saying it was down....
Since I’m not on FakeBook ... it would only let me scroll about 5 seconds before the block 🙄
Thanks for getting it up and running again!
what happened, does anyone know? DDOS?
I thought it was me! Glad y’all are back. What happened?
Thats a fact
Gone But not Forgotten!
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All this RAPTURE talk has gotten
Out of Hand.
Yuppers
Tried that too!
“Since I’m not on FakeBook”
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+1.....and yet, somehow my life goes on just fine. 🙂
It wasn’t too bad yesterday, being busy with church and stuff, but this morning having coffee without FR - 😱 yikes!
We used to go to FreeDominion in those cases.
Phew!
Has FreeRepublic considered setting up a status page, to relay information about site status instead of posting to a Facebook group? For example, a subdomain like status.freerepublic.com could resolve to a separate server from the main site, and a simple status message (ex: "working on it") could be posted there.
Are alerts set up for the site? There are monitoring alerts that can easily be set up to periodically ping or do a GET request to the site, then alert Jim if the site is down.
Is the site load balanced? If one web server goes down, a load balancer would send the site to an active node behind the LB.
Is master-slave database replication set up, with nightly database dumps?
Is the site run on virtual servers, or physical servers? If virtual, nightly backup images could be taken, and if the server goes up it would only take minutes to spin up a replacement from the previous night's backup.
I know that FreeRepublic is run on donations, so I was just curious how the money is spent.
So it wasn't time to head for the hills. Okay.
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