Posted on 10/30/2002 10:16:52 AM PST by Grampa Dave
RIP, FREE REPUBLIC, ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE WEB SITE GETS OVER RUN BY THE RATS!?
It appears that the rats, the socialists, the Islamofascists and other perverts of the Dark Side are about to close another conservative web site by overloading it and making it slower than trying to pour honey at 10 degrees below zero.
Until this is resolved, is there any way to stop the threads that devour bandwidth like Freeper of the Day, the Daily Dose and other nice threads that eat up bandwidth with all of the photos.
Stop the posting of pictures until this is resolved.
Not allow new comers to log on until this is resolved.
Then when the load is high bounce off the Freeploaders.
If not then this wonderful conservative site will go the way other conservative sites have after becoming targets of the dark side.
And as others have noted, it's not the pictures that are causing the load on the FR server. The FR server just sends down a few words of html that address some picture on a site such as Yahoo or whitehouse.gov, and then your PC directly accesses Yahoo or whatever to get the actual picture.
In the middle of the night, it's fine. But otherwise whether at work on this T-3, or at home on my DSL, the FR server is taking many seconds (varys alot) to respond (to even begin sending any data) to each request.
Zipping right along... for now...
I agree. The first time I noticed a problem was when I tried to get on following a radio announcement of the plane crash. I immediately assumed my access issue was due to everyone else trying to get in as well.
On the other hand, when I tried to post to yesterday's FReeper USO Canteen thread (the one about the soldier who was killed during a covert operation in Poland), it took forever for the thread to come up because of all the pictures and graphics. I finally gave up on it.
But would that kind of stuff have anything to do with me clicking on 'Post Reply' in order to bring up this box I am typing into and having to wait forever for it to come up? (That is, if I don't get the "Site Not Responding" pop-up first.)
I think the problem is some kind of virus, security breach, or scumbag Democrat sabotage. That's what I think.
It's entirely possible that if so many are seeing this problem that the ISP deserves some scrutiny.....OR......the server(s) are simply not up to the task with the (I'm guessing) larger hit count (more lurkers / members, increased hits due to the hot topics of the day, etc.).
I'm on two 100 megabit ethernet networks (work and home) and have zero problems.
On the other hand, when I tried to post to yesterday's FReeper USO Canteen thread (the one about the soldier who was killed during a covert operation in Poland), it took forever for the thread to come up because of all the pictures and graphics. I finally gave up on it.
But would that kind of stuff have anything to do with me clicking on 'Post Reply' in order to bring up this box I am typing into and having to wait forever for it to come up? (That is, if I don't get the "Site Not Responding" pop-up first.)
I think the problem is some kind of virus, security breach, or scumbag Democrat sabotage. That's what I think.
I am not a computer expert, but when stuff like this happens couldn't we go to an "only registered users" plan?
If that happened, then I can imagine that them brainstorming ways to throttle it. However, wouldn't "registered users only" tend to (1) chase away future freepers, while (2) forcing intentional disrupters to register, further overloading Jim, John and the servers?
I would object very much to this, as I am expecting to hear any minute now that an old and dear friend has FINALLY decided to join up.
Did I dream this, or was it so? When I joined FR, I seem to recall that newbies had to make x no. of replies to existing threads before they were allowed to post new ones...it seems like it's the newbies who are the most guilty of posting vanity or (even worse) duplicate threads. Duplicate threads are understandable (and seem to be taken care of by Moderators) when a sudden major event happens (Wellstone's plane crash), but lately I've seen the same story posted 3 times in a 12-hour span, and the moderators rarely catch it.
I am no expert either, but I do know that this site, Free Republic, represents a tremendous problem for the Democrat Party. We know that those scumbags have no shame, honor, or decency - - duplicity, deceit, and sleaze is in their makeup. It is what they are.
These animals will be utterly ruthless in doing anything - - anything - - to advance their selfish agenda of personal political power. This means destroying anybody or anything that gets in their way. (Look at what Scumbag and his mob did to anybody who criticized him or his administration.) Free Republic is a font of raw truth and a continual disseminator of news from myriad worldwide sources. The truth simply cannot hide, and there is no Democrat lie that will not be exposed here on Free Republic.
It is my opinion that some sophisticated scumbag Democrat operatives are behind Free Republic's "technical difficulties". It is a problem that will continue forever. And I believe that it could easily be one guy with a computer. I doubt that the current problems are the result of a whole bunch of Democrat scumbags lurking or logging on or whatever. I also don't believe that the tiny circle-jerking clack over at Scumbag Underground has anything to do with anything. They are barely coherent from what I understand.
Regards,
LH
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