More to the point this sort of technical design discussion cannot be made in public lest you tip the bad guys off. A nice private note to JimRob, maybe. That's what FReepmail is for. IMHO, of course.
It's not impractical at all.
You turn the old servers into "read-only" mode, to serve as an archive of the old threads, you bring up your new flat file servers [with something similar to the original flat file Free Republic code - 25 or 50 posts per page], you LDAP your user accounts and passwords over to the new servers, and you go live.
It's entirely doable, and it's what this site is going to need to withstand the Nut Roots attacks it will be facing over the course of the next two months.
That, of course, plus mirroring - there must not be a single pipe serving as a single point of failure when the sh*t starts hitting the fan in the next few weeks.
I mean - good grief - these kooks just broke into two of Sarah Palin's private email accounts at Yahoo - bringing down a relational database, attached to a single pipe out of California, would be a day at the beach by comparison.
No need to further compromise Freeper security secrets...
But whatever is happenning at FR now is extremely annoying at best, very suspicious at worse. And it's not getting better.
No need to further compromise Freeper security secrets...
But whatever is happenning at FR now is extremely annoying at best, very suspicious at worst. And it's not getting better.