Posted on 01/16/2025 12:30:10 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
I've been around FR for awhile, much longer than my registration. Something I remember from January 2017: Free Republic couldn't be reached at all in the day or so leading up to and on Trump's first inauguration.
After the lights came back on, some on here wondered if everyone watching the site and trying to party together is what brought the place down for that day and a half.
There were many however who suggested something more nefarious. Mainly, that the outgoing administration's lackeys launched a denial of service attack on Free Republic, out of spite.
Should we put it past the Biden regime that they won't do that in the days building up to the second inauguration of Donald Trump? I for one wouldn't.
Oops. Mis-spelled “Republic”. Possible to fix?
“Better to be prepared and not need it than to need it and not be prepared.”
How are you preparing?
mentally?
We are talking about people who will spite anyone they perceive as the enemy. This site has been on that list for a loooong time.
Hard to stop a DNS attack
“Will Free Repubic go down in the next few days?”
But they’re sure trying to repubic confused youngsters these days. Hopefully, Trump and his crew will put a stop to it
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There’s always CNN.
Does FR have an X account?
Just in case?....................
LOL
Ahhh, you got me on that one. That was definitely a slip of the fingers on the keyboard :-P
“There were many however who suggested something more nefarious. Mainly, that the outgoing administration’s lackeys launched a denial of service attack on Free Republic, out of spite.”
Seems to me Firefox also limits how much access we have to Newsmax. When I access it sooner or later Firefox disables my reading too many of their articles. DuckDuckGo doesn’t have that problem.
IMHO, FR is small fry (not enough people) and not on the left's ban list. Plus, the left has changed tactics since then and rarely fully ban like they used to. They're more liable to shadow ban and reduce the number of people who come across FR (i.e. through Google search, or perhaps mess up the domain name resolution so that freerepublic.com in the URL box doesn't work, but the IP address 45.79.56.181 does).
The only reasons I remember for FR going down was server failure and forgetting to renew domain name and the latter still allowed getting here by IP address.
I’ve been here since May 18, 1998. Every major news event resulted in hours long blackouts thanks to 14.4K baud rates on dial up. It completely sucked.
That was the price you paid to be the most informed person in the office.
Numerical IP address for FR - 45.79.56.181
Please forgive me...I’m having an esoteric day. Hopefully it will be gone tomorrow.
Closed my FB account in 2017 after Trump won the election..............
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