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Kind of pissed
1/22/17 | walkingfeather

Posted on 01/22/2017 7:39:52 AM PST by Walkingfeather

Ok so I dont own freerepublic only Jim does. But we support it. Can there be an official report why on one of the most important days of crossing the finish line FR was down? Can that be explained please? Maybe we need to hold a special fundraiser to have a alternative data site and professional server managers that can handle contingency issues? This is by no means a criticism of Jim. But it was like being locked out of our own celebration at the club we belong.


TOPICS: Free Republic Policy/Q&A
KEYWORDS: facebook; faq; frdown; frinauguration; frproblems; instachat; smokesignals; snapface
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To: Lazamataz

” allow a quick change to another cloud provider is to code with Repositories and Data Transfer Objects, unit-test and use such mock-providers as Moq.”


I was just going to say that-——(yeah,right.):-)

FReepers are so smart.

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61 posted on 01/22/2017 8:29:26 AM PST by Mears
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To: atc23
You should have been here the day Drudge broke the Monica Lewinsky story.

Was that before or after we got rid of those nasty Italians and that fruit cake Michael Rivero?

62 posted on 01/22/2017 8:29:41 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Walkingfeather

Grateful to be back online


63 posted on 01/22/2017 8:30:59 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: sit-rep

Had the coolest CO!

He knew who made his ship go. He put the Chief’s in charge of the hole. He would have a break-in JG down there to man the SPP or mop out the bilges in less than a minute.


64 posted on 01/22/2017 8:31:26 AM PST by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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To: Walkingfeather

It’s a website FCOL. Get a life.


65 posted on 01/22/2017 8:34:14 AM PST by plain talk
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To: southern rock

Was responding to your “Everybody was over on Facebook.” statement.

Not everybody does Facebook and we cannot read easily because it covers the page with a sign-up banner.


66 posted on 01/22/2017 8:35:16 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Louis Foxwell
No doubt the folks who come here and are not supportive financially should help out.

My monthly donation lapsed years ago when my credit card was cancelled (because of fraud) and I somehow never got around to setting it up again.

Yesterday, I was inspired. More money=more robust server capacity. :)

67 posted on 01/22/2017 8:37:00 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Walkingfeather

Guess who was the most “kind of pissed”... Jim.


68 posted on 01/22/2017 8:38:13 AM PST by Eagles Field
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To: miss marmelstein

That was my thought, too. Some hate FB but there are good things about it. It was great being able to read the posts there.


69 posted on 01/22/2017 8:39:15 AM PST by MamaB (Heb : 13:2)
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To: Lazamataz

100 percent support this concept.

As we say in IT, if it’s critical, we NEED two.


70 posted on 01/22/2017 8:41:28 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Walkingfeather

I have a fear that when Jim decides to move on, or something happens to his brother, Free Republic disappears with the only memorial being snippets available by web search.


71 posted on 01/22/2017 8:41:32 AM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: Lazamataz

I don’t think there’s really any need to get that complicated about it. As someone who has worked in the business for going on 2 decades, it’s probably a good idea to avoid the ‘cloud’ for FR.

From the little bit I’ve been able to gather about the architecture John has put together, it seems to me that simple Mysql replication to a second database server would have made this a few minute blip instead of a 36 hour disaster.

It doesn’t even have to be a fancy complicated failover system. If FR is down for an hour while John is notified so he can log in and switch the IP of the Mysql server, the world will not end. Then, the site comes back up and John can fix the main server while nobody knows anything is even wrong.

Maybe they already have it like this and something more catastrophic happened. This has happened a lot of times though. They should have figured it out by now. The solutions don’t have to be very expensive or complicated.


72 posted on 01/22/2017 8:41:41 AM PST by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: EBH

No sense of humor, I see!


73 posted on 01/22/2017 8:41:53 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: HarleyLady27

HarlyLady27, What a horrific shock. I am so sorry for your loss. My deepest condolences to you and your family.


74 posted on 01/22/2017 8:42:25 AM PST by nicksaunt
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To: Walkingfeather
Ok so I dont own freerepublic only Jim does. But we support it. Can there be an official report why on one of the most important days of crossing the finish line FR was down? Can that be explained please?

If I understand the request, a close analogy would be an external audit that is requested by shareholders of a corporation to ensure sound business processes do not endanger shareholder investments.

Free Republic is owned by Jim Robinson, but he solicits quarterly fundraisers. Does that imply any fiduciary responsibility to the funders to account for the donations? Does that obligate a report back to the funders when an extraordinary condition occurs?

If not obligate, would good manners suggest a voluntary accounting of what happened? I think that is the question being asked. Jim has always explained past outages in due time, once the root causes were discovered.

-PJ

75 posted on 01/22/2017 8:42:49 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Hulka

You should. I love it. That is one of my major news sites. It helps having conservative friends/relatives/news sites. FB is what you make it.


76 posted on 01/22/2017 8:43:30 AM PST by MamaB (Heb : 13:2)
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To: PJBankard

Virtual infrastructure can be expensive but costs are coming down. We use both VMware and Hyper-V at work for mission critical functions and they have performed very well.

Microsoft Azure services also allow cloud hosting and support Linux now.

I’m not sure if an analysis has been done to look at costs of dedicated hosting compared to virtual hosting (Microsoft, Amazon) but it might be worth looking into.

The Facebook page definitely helped on Inauguration day.


77 posted on 01/22/2017 8:44:05 AM PST by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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To: anton

Only your opinion. I really enjoy it.


78 posted on 01/22/2017 8:44:33 AM PST by MamaB (Heb : 13:2)
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To: Walkingfeather

The Server Crashed






A FReepathon and the Inauguration, the End of The "Lyin' King's" tenure, and a number of live threads all going at the same time. You really CAN'T change the laws of physics!

79 posted on 01/22/2017 8:45:00 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: nicksaunt

Thank you so much...


80 posted on 01/22/2017 8:46:04 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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