The Earth started to go wobbly.
Yep. I was a little concerned there that maybe it was gone for good.
Indeed.
Thanks Jim and John. You guys are the best.
Am I logged in?
Thank you, Jesus ... for bringing FR back online! 🙏🏻
Praise the Lord! Man, did I ever miss my FR fix.
Amen!
Thank you Jim and John.
any idea what happened?
or how to get info when it’s dowwn?
i was looking at down detecter frequently.
thankful it’s back
It was like sleeping through the last 5 minutes of yesterdays Buffalo Bills game.
First thing I did was go to the “down detector”
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/freerepublic.com.html
That confirmed that it was down for everybody.
Everybody get your donations in.
I was so distraught!
Thanks for getting it up and running again!
I thought it was me! Glad y’all are back. What happened?
Thats a fact
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.
Beloved, maybe? More like a universal constant went missing and things started going wonky.
The facebook group came in handy.
I felt discombobulated all day yesterday without FreeRepublic!