Vanity: FreeRepublic pages intermittently loading very slowly / not at all. anybody else seeing this?

Me and my router ^ | 2025-03-06 | Me

[dayglored]

The last hour or so, pages on FR are loading very irregularly -- sometimes normal, but more often than not they hang indefinitely, as if the connection was dropped.

All other sites seem to be fine, so I don't think it's at my end, or my ISP (Spectrum in Upstate NY).

Just figured I better get a sanity check.

[spokeshave]

Same same...Spokeshave in Nevada,

[spokeshave]

Same same...Spokeshave in Nevada,

[spokeshave]

Here is the problem...guy went for a tea break

[dayglored]

There is now another followup thread regarding the network issues.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4302665/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I gave up and streamed TV for a while.

[Jim Robinson]

Cyber attack yes. All CPU’s maxed out 100%. I’d say this is a DOS attack.

[Jim Robinson]

Yep, it’s a DOS attacks. Driving us crazy.

[SaveFerris]

Democrats or Chinese.......

That’s my guess at this point

[dayglored]

> Yep, it’s a DOS attacks. Driving us crazy.

OMG, damn, I'm so sorry, what a pain in the arse.

We'll stick with y'all, and we'll stop complaining. :-)

Carry on, Sir, and God Bless.

-- dayglored

[Bikkuri]

You broke the internet!

[dfwgator]

[SaveFerris]

Woohoo!!

[SaveFerris]

It’s too fast - I can’t tell what that is

What is it from?

[Bikkuri]

Lol.. I still have the whole series.. that one was probably the best one ;^)

[Bikkuri]

A Brit comedy TV series called “The IT Crowd”.

It is pretty funny for IT/computer geeks.
It had 4 seasons.

[Bikkuri]

That female is the computer guy’s boss (and she knows NOTHING about computers or networks).

In that GIF, she was supposed to hold some presentation, but didn’t know anything to say, so the computer guys give her a little box, and tell her that the whole internet is in the box.
The room is intrigued and have full attention on that box.

I can’t remember exactly what happened (it has been awhile), but something on the box broke (or a light blinking.. or something like that), and they thought the internet (maybe the world?) broke, and they were all panicking.

(Like I said, it has been awhile, so I may be a little off.. but I do remember that as one of the better ones.)

[SaveFerris]

😄😆😅🤣

[Bikkuri]

Actually, I guess anyone could find it funny (once you got used to Brit comedy)..
Wasn’t too much tech stuff in it.

[Openurmind]

That “should” be a completely separate entity of it’s own that doesn’t affect the the main site it’s self at all. You just link/redirect to it from the main site. Basically a separate mini subdomain payment site of it’s own isolated from the main. It is good to keep them isolated from each other anyhow.

[Bikkuri]

Here.. found a short (3 minute clip) of that one..

Moss Introduces Jen To The Internet | The IT Crowd Series 3 Episode 4: The Internet