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What has happened to make FreeRepublic so slow?
Vanity Question
| 01/24/2009
| Swordmaker
Posted on 01/24/2009 4:56:12 PM PST by Swordmaker
I have noticed that FR has become abysmally slow in response and page loading in the past day or so. I've noticed a few responses in the threads where other Freepers mention in passing the slowness. I checked it on several of my client's locations. Everywhere I brought up FR was slow.
Sometimes takes up to 30 seconds to load the browsing pages. Moving to a topic, is a bit faster but not much.
I also noticed last night that doing title searches that used to bring up pages of responses now only bring up less than a page.
John, Jim, what's going on? Are we being hit by a Denial of Service attack?
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To: Swordmaker
Increased internet traffic?
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posted on
01/24/2009 4:58:06 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Swordmaker
Increased internet traffic?
I’ve noticed the slow down too.
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posted on
01/24/2009 4:58:06 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Swordmaker
Slow for me and also the search function was messed up yesterday. I know everytime I tried to search, I got an error and I saw alot of duplicates.
To: Swordmaker
Well, Barack is trying to shut his opposition up...
Attacking FR would be a way of preventing them from organizing an effective opposition.
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posted on
01/24/2009 4:58:55 PM PST
by
benjibrowder
(Looking forward to kicking Obama out of office in 2012.)
To: Swordmaker; Jim Robinson; John Robinson; Admin Moderator
Any clue as to why FR is slowed to a crawl?
To: Swordmaker
I thought it was just me...
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posted on
01/24/2009 4:59:26 PM PST
by
garykfd
(American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God!)
To: John Robinson; Jim Robinson
Why is FR so slow the last few days?
It took 21 seconds to return to the thread after hitting the POST button. 30 seconds to bring up the browser window. My Status Bar on Safari says “Contacting on www.freerepublic.com” for a long period... then it switches to “Waiting for www.freerepublic.com” for another long period.
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posted on
01/24/2009 4:59:54 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Swordmaker
FreeRepublic uses antiquated technology (perl/cgi).
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posted on
01/24/2009 5:00:05 PM PST
by
libh8er
To: Swordmaker
Get a Mac.....
sorry...had to say it..;)
Same thing from this side of the world also...very slow and draggy.
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posted on
01/24/2009 5:00:18 PM PST
by
Tainan
(Where's my FOF Indicator?)
To: garykfd
I thought it was just me... That's why I posted... I decided it wasn't just me...
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posted on
01/24/2009 5:01:36 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Swordmaker
I am one who has a tendency to worry about cyber attacks from the enemies of free speech. Paranoia aside, the Free Republic is working on some very sophisticated equipment. With its complexity, there can always be a module somewhere in the system that gums up the performance.
To: Swordmaker
it took 23 sec from the time i clicked reply for the post box to come up.. usually takes 4-5 sec
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posted on
01/24/2009 5:04:46 PM PST
by
garykfd
(American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God!)
To: libh8er
FreeRepublic uses antiquated technology (perl/cgi). It was almost as antiquated last week when FR was quick and snappy... a week's more aging shouldn't antiquate UNIX or LINUX that much more.
;^)>
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posted on
01/24/2009 5:05:25 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Swordmaker
Somebody must say it!
Too many vanities?
:-)
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posted on
01/24/2009 5:05:25 PM PST
by
ThomasThomas
( Never mind.........it may go both ways...)
To: Swordmaker
We're under attack by BO's thugs. Looks to me like the Robison's have developed a way to keep FR up....we were down lots during the election season and during the debates....I'd say this is great we're slow but can still pull up FR and post. It's better than having FR down.
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posted on
01/24/2009 5:05:45 PM PST
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
To: Swordmaker
* Black helicopters (or is that considered racist now?)
* Bush's fault
* Stateful inspection of packets to track down conservatives
* Billy-the-Bomber has gone high-tech and is now bombing websites
* Rahm Emanuel is going site by site, stabbing a table with a steak knife yelling "dead, dead, dead!" each time a successful denial-of-service is completed.
* Rush's fault
* Another Clinton-inspired coincidence
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posted on
01/24/2009 5:05:45 PM PST
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: jonrick46
I HATE gummy electrons don’t you?? LOL
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posted on
01/24/2009 5:07:06 PM PST
by
garykfd
(American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God!)
To: Swordmaker
2 solutions. Clean your hard drive of internet porn and temporary files and maybe it’ll go faster.
-the 2nd is that “maybe” FReepers haven’t PAID FR in this current $$ drive so the servers suffer.
To: garykfd
Nope same slow here ... I thought it was just my ISP.
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posted on
01/24/2009 5:07:27 PM PST
by
Tarpon
(America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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