How can he post when the site has been down?
I can’t believe you weren’t kept in the loop...I am going to get to the bottom of this...
Jim doesn’t ban folks for asking a question, or criticizing FP for anything ... otherwise I would be long gone. I agree, however, an occasional update on system problems would be greatly appreciated.
Non-issue (of web pages).
shhhhhh....you’ll wake someone up
It IS frustrating when a page “hangs” or a reply takes forever to post.. I’m about to experience that now.. click!
I imagine they are busy keeping the site ‘zombie-free’... Sh!t happens, get used to it...
I imagine they are busy keeping the site ‘zombie-free’... Sh!t happens, get used to it...
I have a dial-up modem so I am not too surprised when a page doesn’t load. I have noticed today that FR (and another site) have failed to load maybe 9 out of 10 times. This happens every now and then and I have no idea what is happening.
So, what is happening?
Did Jim fergit ta jiggle that handle agin?
I wouldn’t necessarily categorize those who keep FreeRepublic running as pretending nothing is happening. My guess is that they are hurriedly trying to plug each hole as it appears and anticipate everything they can before it happens.
If you’ve not worked on computer equipment, it may be difficult to understand the challenges involved in keeping it up and running.
The trade-off is having them take the time to give a status update to those of us who use *their* equipment, or spend the same amount of time trying to get the system stabilized.
In the end, what would *we* do differently if we knew it was a hardware malfunction, a DDOS/trojan/other exploit, software glitch, or power problems?
Apparently FR has different ideas.
Here’s the way I see it. This site costs nothing to join except if you choose to donate, which I do, monthly, BTW. It would be different if Jim charged you a fee for joining, then he would be obligated to buy better equipment or hire some experts to keep the frickin’ liberal hackers from making attacks on us, but he doesn’t charge you. That means you have no right to complain. Except things the way they are or leave, simple as that.
if you join the yahoo group, you’ll know.
i’ve been having trouble all day and i have cox.
must be those pesky obamaites.
I don’t know what kind of security FR has on the servers but imagine having to deal with hackers, terrorists, Obama staff and all the rest from all OVER the world trying to take down FR on a daily basis.
FR operates on donations ONLY. If you don’t donate to help with upkeep and improvements (which the vast majority don’t), then don’t complain. If you do, then your question ought to be of what YOU can do to help speed things up like donate more for a new server, more bandwidth, better anti-DOS software, etc.
Thanks Jim, for all you do...even if you do ignore my warnings about the Christian abduction of your site...not that there’s anything wrong with that...unless that dampens one’s enthusiasm at freepathon time.
Take two reboots and call us in the morning...
You have to be logged in...
Did you ever spill electrons? Very tough wrangling them up and getting back into those little wires.