This is one of the biggest nights for FR. Everyone is on, resulting in a bottleneck that slows traffic.
AND BEFORE you complain the FR should get better equipment, this same bottleneck happens to even YOUTUBE when a video is very popular.
Posted on 02/04/2020 7:35:42 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
Slow as hell, can't get pages to come up,
are we facing another attack on the site?
Could be a DDoS attack. Could be especially heavy traffic, given that Rush received the medal. (As an aside, Rush looked a little pale and a bit unsteady tonight - I know, treatment will do that to you - but he seemed genuinely shocked and humbled when he was told he was being given The Presidential Medal of Freedom. You couldn’t fake the emotion on his face, no matter how good an actor you are. Somehow, I think they kept the news from him right up to the SOTU. Bravo, Mr. President.)
Yeah, for me right now it’s slower than AOC trying to figure out how to make change from a $50 for a $16 bar tab.
}:-)4
Slow for me, too. Thought it might be a problem with wi-fi on the cruise ship, but I guess not. Seems that some nefarious entity hits us when there are special current events happening.
Yep, it reminds me of the days when my ISP was AOL over a modem and heard “You’ve got mail”. Very slow tonight.
DONATE!!!
And yet we will continue to talk. “They” cannot silence us. Freedom of association is not given by a government. FReep on. It will pass.
Too many vanities, blogs and clickbaits.
IF EVERYONE WOULD DONATE, MAYBE JIM COULD KEEP THIS FROM HAPPENING!
PLEASE, PLEASE DONATE. WE CAN’T LEY FR GO AWAY~
RUSH IS ABOUT TO AND I CAN’T HEKP FROM CRTING. HE’S WHY I CAN GET UP MORNINGS!
PLEASE.
“ It can’t handle the volume of users. It will be unusable on election night.”
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What she said.
This is one of the biggest nights for FR. Everyone is on, resulting in a bottleneck that slows traffic.
AND BEFORE you complain the FR should get better equipment, this same bottleneck happens to even YOUTUBE when a video is very popular.
It also slowed down yesterday after Rush announced his cancer.
Big difference between the number of people on YouTube and those on FR. No comparison.
Seems like the FR servers should be able to handle a very busy night without this huge slowdown. Regardless, I love FR and will continue donating (wish I could afford to give more).
Yeah. He changed his tactics. I’ll work on a countermeasure tonight to be ready for tomorrow.
Yes, they hit us hard just as the speech started. Looks like they’ve adapted to our defenses and have adjusted their attack strategies. John will post on it later tonight. Looks like we’re getting better response now.
Drop your settings per page from 50 t0 20 and problem solved.
Yep, slow here in Maryland.
EPIC State of the Union speech!
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Yes indeed!
Seems to have cleared up.
But no other site I belong to costs anywhere near this much. I pay much more a year to this one than the others. And they are never down. Maybe it’s an attack.
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