[wardaddy]

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...

[Gene Eric]

Could stick a load balancer in front that gives priority bandwidth to registered users.

[The Cajun]

Details would be nice about the problem, almost thinking software (probably pretty ancient) or current configuration trying to run ancient software, but with no details, just taking a SWAG.