Posted on 02/02/2010 5:29:26 PM PST by ml/nj
Access to FreeRepublic has been spotty for me for quite some time now. But tonight I saw something I haven't seen before. At 8:04 PM ET, I tried to refresh FR three times. Each time the page came up reasonably quickly, but the most recent post was from 7:34 PM. (No. I'm not "working offline"!) Now I see that there were the usual number of posts during that half hour. What's going on here? (Usually when FR fails, it fails to load for a while. I don't get anything back at all; and then I see a gap in the timestamps on the posts reflecting roughly the same outage I observed.)
Any ideas?
ML/NJ
Same here, very spotty at best.
No doubt a DOJ plot.
FR gets put on hold when the NSA guy/gal has to take a prescribed government potty or coffee break. Use the time to get a sandwich while the NSA has us on hold. ... And I’m almost serious.
;-)
“Hey, over the weekend Freepers went down, then I went to FOX next and it was Down.
I started looking for Ammo and guns before my Wife told me to calm down it was just “Temporary” and “they” would be back online.
But Sunday it was down for at least an hour or so.
But I did find my Ammo storage box, up in the attic.”
Man oh man, you need some serious counseling or a new life. heh heh
Global warming.
Do not, repeat DO NOT store your ammo in the attic. It’s the second place ‘they’ look when they barge into your home.
heh heh If so, he’s also punishing those who pay his bills. ;)
“Global warming.”
Oh great, give Gore more ammunition. ;)
“Do not, repeat DO NOT store your ammo in the attic. It’s the second place ‘they’ look when they barge into your home.”
Best advice of the day!
No, somebody posted that they saw an image of Sarah Palin on the outside of their morning toasted bran muffin and the site was swamped within minutes.
You're partly right. Actually what has been happening over the last week or so is one server gets overloaded and jammed up causing the back-up server to jam up causing the back-up back-up server to jam which causes the back-up back-up back-up server to get overloaded until it finally hits the OMG last server in the system and the whole site goes down.
Jim posted a pretty detailed description of the problem just a day or so ago. I'll see if I can find a link.
Regardless, John's been working triple overtime trying to get it sorted out.
Bushes fault and globullsmarmingcheneyhaliburtanclimatechange.
REDRUM! REDRUM!
This does not help my blood pressure.
Do not, repeat DO NOT store your ammo in the attic. It’s the second place ‘they’ look when they barge into your home.
Store it in a gun, They will never look there!
“ammo storage Box in the attic”
LOL, I did NOT say I stored my ammo in the attic. Only the Army issue “Storage Box”......
“Obama” is doing so many things Wrong, he is starting to get blamed for Everything......even Internet interrupts......he is becoming “Bush like”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2441401/posts?q=1&;page=51
By the way, for those who are wondering about FR’s hardware, my understanding is that we have about a dozen servers at the data center. About half of them are dedicated to handling Free Republic back-end processing. We also have a couple front-end servers directing the traffic and balancing the load, a couple database servers, an administrative server, a secure server, and a real-time database backup server. We have two main IP’s, one as a standby if the first goes down. We also have some older servers that John uses for backup and development.
Theoretically, we have a fail-safe system. The “fail” seems to be working great, now we’re working on perfecting the “safe” part.
It appears that our current series of crashes have to do with our traffic load. It appears that our servers begin overloading and first one crashes (by becoming completely jammed and failing to respond) then the next, and the next, etc, until the entire system and all backups fail to respond. That’s when we have to start rebooting. And we’ve had some problems recently with our rebooting process.
We do not know yet why we are overloading. We have been able to handle several times our normal load with no problem. We do not rule out DOS attack, but cannot find anything in the logs to identify it. John will continue trying to isolate the problem, but we do not feel at this time that it is for a lack of server power.
All I can say is, please bear with us. We’ve experienced these kinds of systems problems before whether hardware, software, balancing or Bolshevik, and have always been able to work through or around them eventually.
God willing, we will persevere!
65 posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:24:37 PM by Jim Robinson (Join the TEA Party Rebellion!! May God and TEA save the Republic!!)
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