Posted on 11/05/2012 5:55:58 AM PST by Arcy
On ELECTION NIGHT, Free Republic could help it's members by preventing access to the site by anyone who does not have a valid log-in and password.
It would also be adventageous to prevent the creation of new accounts on FR (starting now) until after the election to keep out the liberals who will certainly come here to explode in anger as elction results come in.
I've noticed in elections past that DU does not allow access to even VIEW their site during elections unless you have an account. We should do the same!
I have zerpo knowledge of these things, but what I have read that makes the most sense is that the problem is the pipe - not anything internal to FR.
Is that even close to accurate? What solution, if it is?
Right now - mid morning on Election Day Eve, she’s feeling like she’s taking her last gasping breaths before expiration.
Everyone keep in mind that Glenn Beck, and The Blaze TV on the Dish Network will be covering Live election results. If FR is overloaded, at least that’s a place to get truly unfiltered info. Fox will be my last resort. They want the results drawn out as long as possible for viewership. That’s why they keep bouncing around to different polls that show the election to be tied. Every day they quote a new pollster.
Even if Romney gets 500 EV’s the MSM won’t tell us until 2AM. It will still be “too close to call” up until then!!
opps, Laz. That was scary. At first was going to talk with you about post number 62. But am going to email.
How can it be free, it if is limited to a special group?
“It would only be for one night.”
Understood. Either way, I’m thankful that I’m not the one who will make the final decision. Frankly, I’ll be SO glad when the entire election is over, as my nerves are totally shot. I’m tired of going to bed each night with my stomach churning about all the lies and mud-slinging being done by the Hussein sycophants. I pray that this country will be rescued from its total destruction that would be the result of the Imposter winning.
Your FR friend, Grumpy.
Not a good idea.
The MSM, MSNBC, FOXNEWS, Hannity, Rush, O’Reilly, Matthews, Mr. Maddow et al would be freaking out with not being able to see what the direction and mood of the Conservative Tea Party Movement is.
This is where they have their drones go first thing every day to see the truth so they can either report it or spin it, depending on their political leanings.
There would be alot of sputtering and pauses as they try to think for themselves with out the help of The Premire Conservative Website on the www which is FreeRepublic.com!
Oops didn’t take into account that they all have there sycophants signed up here.
Well, if that's the case then FR should either repair or find another "pipe" (whatever the hell that is!), rather than to continue to sink into irrelevancy as a political forum.
It’s pretty zippy now!
It’s not the pipe. It’s queries to the database. The removal of excerpts on the latest articles view (for every device but my iPhone) makes me think that.
Depending on how the software is designed, that may not reduce the load. The software may not even be designed to accommodate that ability.
You can have your own damn rectal scanner, I want nothing to do with that.
I write .net software applications and .aspx and the implentation of what this post was asking is does NOT require a major undertaking; in fact, it’s very easy to do.
And you deploy those applications in a unix environment, right? Oh, you don't? Then stop wasting everybody's time with "in fact, it's very easy to do."
It’s actually a little easier to do in Windows, which obviously 99% of aspx (ASP.NET) deploys to. But yeah. Yer right.
If I’ve learned anything in the last 20 years of developing software, it’s that people who suggest “All you have to do is ...” usually don’t know what they’re talking about. Very rarely have I ever met anyone who is that good. In fact, in 20 years, I’ve met exactly three developers who were that good. They forgot more about developing software than I will ever hope to learn, but if you asked them they’d say, “Me? You’re delusional. I’m not that good. Nobody is.” ... which is of course why I spent years on the floor in their offices asking questions and soaking up as much as they would disclose. You can’t imagine how much one can learn by just listening.
All I can say is prayer works. I was praying like crazy that John would find and fix the problem before the election, and lo and behold, the miracle was granted. And it was not the pipe, not the hardware, not the FR application software, not authentication, not the database, not a whole lot of other things that were suggested. And not outside interference. Turns out it was a conflict between two otherwise perfectly functioning pieces of systems software, and of course it only occured under maximum load conditions. John finally isolated the problem and reconfigured one of the components on election eve and throughput suddenly jumped. He thought he had it fixed, but on election day it started lagging again. He then installed a new software package that changed the way our frontend system handles web traffic and presto, problem solved. Have faith, my friends.
This is my layman’s understanding. John posted a litle more detail yesterday in tech terms that are over my head. And it was a gutsy call on John’s part. Great job, John!
Oops, actually it was on election eve that he figured it out.
His series of posts on the solution starts here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2955229/posts?page=102#102
And here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2955229/posts?page=122#122
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