What are possible causes for FR to have been down today?

“There is a FR Facebook page.”

Yeah. Complete worthless if you don’t have a FB account. All you get is the login screen.

61 posted on 09/08/2025 10:57:28 AM PDT by Revel

At my end the whole net went down. “Internet not available right now.”

A lot of other chat sites were also down.

62 posted on 09/08/2025 11:14:59 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))

I don’t think so. Jim would have warned us beforehand

Here is my guess. Somebody did something. Joking aside, the outage happened early Saturday morning when maintenance is often scheduled. FR moved to a cloud service a while back. There could have been a virtual machine failure FR was using or maybe something like a power hit when FR was doing DB maintenance. It was serious enough that it was down for 2 days. Us long timers have experienced much long down times in the past.

63 posted on 09/08/2025 11:41:29 AM PDT by EVO X ( )

64 posted on 09/08/2025 12:26:02 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)

65 posted on 09/08/2025 1:42:42 PM PDT by BFW

To: whyilovetexas111

Glad to see it’s back and up and running.

Oh no! FR was down! I couldn't pimp my blog!

66 posted on 09/08/2025 3:38:34 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Michael Bennet claps on 1 and 3.)

"Not having Free Republic really makes it hard to find the news. You have to do alot more searching."

patriots.win

67 posted on 09/08/2025 3:39:26 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)

68 posted on 09/08/2025 4:47:12 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)

To: minnesota_bound

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue"
Blnk

69 posted on 09/08/2025 4:51:07 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)

Willy Brown believes that FR hardly ever goes down.

70 posted on 09/08/2025 4:56:20 PM PDT by Ben Dover (Terrorism is a cancer that can only be cured with massive doses of radiation.)

There was a Canadian site, freedominion.com, that was sympathetic and helpful to Freepers during down days. They were sued, lost, and were put out of business, IIRC.

71 posted on 09/08/2025 8:22:01 PM PDT by umbagi (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. [Twain])

All of the sites I frequent were off. FR, political sites, FB, Amazon. Kitko. It was pretty general.

72 posted on 09/08/2025 8:25:20 PM PDT by arthurus (| covfeve | vvW)

To: Presbyterian Reporter

“It’s like Trump scaring NATO into contributing more.”

Maybe. But FR went down just after I made rather large contribution,

73 posted on 09/08/2025 8:29:39 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)

SHOCK! Not everyone has Facebook.

74 posted on 09/09/2025 4:37:07 AM PDT by Ikeon (As a white kid in the u.s.I was taught to do what i was told, WTH were black kids told? )

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