Free Republic's Technical Problems

[per loin]

Of late, FR seems plagued with slowdowns. Is this a temporary problem or is some limit being approached?

[eddie willers]

Beta here.

[rdb3]

I'm disappointed, everytime something significant happens, I get 'booted' off. What's going on. Do we need to buy new/additional equipment?

One word: Hammering!

[Diddle E. Squat]

The IULH (International Union of Long-Hamsters) has accused Free Republic of locking out the hamsters. No word if Bush will order a cooling off period, but off the record Free Republic has suggested that the hamsters were engaged in a slowdown.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

I believe the Technical problems on Free Republic are caused by a small group of lawyers who refuse to pay their Beer Debts.

[Unknown Freeper]

Beta and cable here. At least I can pretend that things are moving. I feel for those on dial up.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Richard Gere raiding the FR server again?

[blam]

"One word: Hammering!"

What does that mean?

[per loin]

They've gotta quit depending on the repair guy in the white van.

[KateUTWS]

Do the Beta FreeRepublic site and the regular site run on different servers? Why can we get it here and not there?

[BJClinton]

Richard Gere raiding the FR server again?

You just had to go there, didn't you?

[Freebird Forever]

It seems to me that the last time the FR server was this slow, it corresponded with the DDOS attack on root main servers (10-21-02).

[ApesForEvolution]

It's the insurgence of RATS trolling FR to see if freedom-loving Americans are stomping on the tragic demise of the now-defunct resident communist of the US Senate.

By all accounts, he was a very nice, very principled communist and our prayers go out to his surviving sons, grandchildren, friends staff and family.

No one, I sincerely hope, has glee over the way and timing with which he left this world. God bless America and our Constitutional FREE Republic.

[mombonn]

I can barely copy and paste, let alone beta FR, whatever that means.

LOL

[Dog Gone]

I believe the Technical problems on Free Republic are caused by a small group of lawyers who refuse to pay their Beer Debts.

That's odd. I have it on good authority that it's caused by thirsty old farts. I wonder who's right?

[Sandy]

Any clue? A hint as to what is wrong would be much appreciated.

[Alas Babylon!]

Try this site, Internet Health Report. Looks like the backbones Genuity and Verio are down, causing some network congestion.

[John Robinson]

test bump

[Unknown Freeper]

Can you hear me now?

[John Robinson]

Maybe I fixed it. If this thing hangs together another 15 minutes I'm going to celebrate... get drunk or something. SOOOOO FRUSTRATING!

[kitkat]

I'm on regular URL. It's been down off and on most of the day. Occasionally, I get to the first page of FR, but can't get any of the threads to come up.

I now have the URL for Beta FR, but can't bookmark it, so I saved the URL. I canNOT get to any discussion page. Can anyone tell me how to do that on Beta?