Posted on 09/09/2026 6:55:32 AM PDT by rlmorel
I have been getting long delays in opening Free Republic pages or threads. It can take up to 5-10 seconds.
When posting a comment, I occasionally get a timeout error, sometimes even with the error it does post, and when I resubmit the post it without checking first by refreshing, I can sometimes get two posts.
Occasionally it times out completely opening a window and I get an NGINX gateway error.
This is happening on no other sites for me. I can ping any other number of Internet sites, and get 20 ms responses. Pinging freerepublic.com gives 60-70 ms responses.
If I ping all other websites, this is what I get:
PING whitehouse.gov (192.0.66.51): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.0.66.51: icmp_seq=0 ttl=60 time=26.331 ms
64 bytes from 192.0.66.51: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=21.056 ms
64 bytes from 192.0.66.51: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=37.691 ms
64 bytes from 192.0.66.51: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=21.747 ms
64 bytes from 192.0.66.51: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=29.494 ms
However, if I ping Free Republic, this is what I get:
PING freerepublic.com (45.79.56.181): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 45.79.56.181: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=71.808 ms
64 bytes from 45.79.56.181: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=68.921 ms
64 bytes from 45.79.56.181: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=68.656 ms
64 bytes from 45.79.56.181: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=62.789 ms
64 bytes from 45.79.56.181: icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=62.876 ms
I see this kind of disparity universally, ping times to Free Republic are 2-3 times longer.
Working okay for me now, didn’t do anything today. Just started working!
Were you seeing any of these problems before, or was it always fast for you?
Ugh. That last post again took a while.
Yes...working now...but as I said I deleted history, etc
But that one went through! Well, I will watch it for a while then and see how it goes...:)
I am going to hold off doing all those things again. I am curious to see what happens.
No.
Yes. The other thing I’ve noticed is we’re getting very few articles posted. I don’t know if people just aren’t submitting them, or if the lack is on the administrator’s end.
About every other site with these response times and I bail out. I tough it out for FR.
I was having a lot of trouble yesterday, caused a double post and almost caused several more... but it ‘seems’ to be ok today. Seems to be, but I just got up (overslept) and haven’t had coffee yet... so I could be mistaken re: that (lol).
“”Clear your cache.””
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Oh, snap.... thanks. For some reason, I always forget to do that (duh).
I’ve been experiencing the delays in North Idaho on Spectrum cable. On AT&T cellular data in ID and Seattle. And past 17 days in Germany and Austria when load in USA is low.
“”But if Chris and John took an active role in running this place like their father did, I bet the finances wouldn’t be so severe.””
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What are you suggesting? Monthly FReepathons with guest host pleaders? lol
Hey, come to think of it...
I did all day yesterday.
Yesterday.
Today too now.
All good here
Who would you rather be the POTUS right now instead of Trump?
Transparency? Forget it. It is a business, Corporate secrets and all that...
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