Tonight was a disaster for FR. I have no idea what the technical specs of the FR backend are, but something needs to be done. If the site was this bad tonight, can you imagine election night? Forget it.
Jim should look into to some additional capacity with one of the hosting services. They can spin up a few servers for a couple days then decom them when done.
it must be region dependent or server dependent (Comcast here)
tonight was a lost cause
i followed HuffPo some tonight to see hot the libs were cracking
that site...considerably more hits than here ran fine
as I recall FR used to have more traffic on a regular work day than I saw tonight over this debate
back in my early days here from Gore thru 2004...most decent threads would get over 500 replies and plenty in the 1000s and even some in the 10s of 1000s
and i would look at replies page and it would have replies counted by seconds or 2-3 seconds and so forth
just a steady hum all day...peaking with morning coffee and then after lunch and then when folks got home after dinner
and Friday and Saturday nites
slow during church Sunday or Monday Night Football
I’m showing 50 replies last 14 minutes...3 replies a minute more or less...