Database Issue Nov 13th 2008

[John Robinson]

We were experiencing a database issue today that effectively froze the site content. It has been defrosted.

We've experienced numerous technical issues this past month. In an effort to handle increasing traffic, we've made upgrades to our internal structure that have rendered the site far more brittle than it ever was, coupled with general growing pains, coincidental hardware failures and a little foul play (at least one nasty denial of service attack) has seen the site down far too many hours this month. It's been frustrating for everybody involved and I apologize.

[siamesecats]

Thank you for your hard work!

[daddydoo]

John, I want to thank you, along with many others, for Free Republic. Glad all is well. Information is more precious than gold.

[daddydoo]

My very thought!

[Kenny]

Thanks John, you do a great job and it’s appreciated.

[Lucky9teen]

Thank you for your hard work John!!!

It does NOT go unappreciated here. ;)

[manic4organic]

I appreciate you getting it fixed before I went into the DT’s. :)

[Alberta's Child]

Thanks for keeping us updated, John. When things took a strange turn this aftenoon I thought my own computer was fouled up (I had technical issues on a couple of other sites).

[Daffynition]

[NonValueAdded]

Thanks for the report and all the hard work.

[Blackhawk]

Been there. Thank you for your hard work.

[tomkat]

John,

Chiming in with others saying that no apology is needed.

Thanks for all your past and ongoing efforts.

It only takes about 45 seconds on that cf yahoo backup site to re-appreciate the clean lines and functionality of this oasis.

Not after brownie points, just sayin' . . .

[Amityschild]

Yeah! You're back up!!! I need my Free Republic :-)

You're the best!

[pattty]

Thanks for the update John.

[stylecouncilor]

Thanks for all that you do!

[Repeal The 17th]

As much as all the recent downtime frustrates all the freepers,
I know it must really really really chap y’alls asses as well.
Thanks for all you do.

[Billthedrill]

Great work as usual, John. This sort of thing doesn't always scale without issues but scale it has. Well done.

Now back to the whack-a-mole life of a System Administrator...

[SunkenCiv]

note.

[Drumbo]

You are a pioneer in a wild-west frontier John. Thanks.

[SouthTexas]

Hang in there, tomorrow will be, uh, different. :)

[Morgan in Denver]

Thanks for the work you do, John. This will be a continuing problem in the future too, unless the left decides to stop attacking us.

This also points out needed increased efforts for Free Republic and other conservative websites to keep vigilance and be prepared.

Our side does not need to attack sites on the left but we certainly do need to help numerous GOP websites get “modern” and help them start utilizing all the newer technology.