Free Republic outage

[Marnieworld]

If it's not the Feds or a deliberate outage for data deletion by the Free Republic admins then this outage is due to increased traffic their way that is overwhelming them.

Clearly they are not used to this kind of traffic. Clearly their membership and page views are so low that they can't handle actual interest in their site. This proves that they are in over their heads technically but more importantly that they never had a need to deal with this kind of bandwidth.

There are no escalating levels of activity with plans to deal with it like we have here on DU. The admins here have developed a working system of dealing with intense traffic , honed over time through experience and expertise. This is probably the first bandwidth challenge for the irrelevant freerepublic. Exhibit A of their irrelevance.

:rofl:

[Rick Myers]

1. Seemed to be MASSIVE delete operation n/t

[LilyLibber]

3. Good point.

Are Terrorist Chad's posts still there?

[Lexingtonian]

18. the Ministry of Truth in operation :-)

or is the Ministry of Love?

[twilight_sailing]

2. Just dialed it up.

Looks like it is working.

[Marnieworld]

6. well then it's obstruction

I'm sure they haven't "cleaned" their servers beyond a forensic retrieval if necessary. I guess it's a cleaning for people like us. Good luck asshats. You can't delete everything or Google cache I'm sure.

It's so nice to have a new scandal to watch. It's been over a week since Haggard and I needed a fix.

[Irreverend IX]

22. They haven't cleaned anything...

Castagana's posts are still there. Maybe RimJob's too dumb to delete them? He hasn't updated his software in 10 years, after all...

[Arkana]

24. Well, whatever.

Make sure we get screenshots and saved copies of all of them--those fuckers are breeding their own terrorists.

[EstimatedProphet]

30. That would be typical freeper for you

We only erase posts if they disrupt or are a threat. They very well likely would erase them because they're now embarrassed, or because they don't want 'our kind' looking at them.

[blue sky at night]

4. Well said..........and,

thanks for enlightening us on a very repugnant subject. Always wondered how many "members" they had compared to the DU.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. That's because our admins spend the donations on equipment and software

and keeping it going and improving the site in all ways.

RimJob just keeps the donations for himself while pretending to spend it on the site.

probably spends it on pedophilic sex trips to Asia. And no, I don't mean that as a joke. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out he does.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

21. Too true

RimJob's Freaks Repugnant would have been a lame joke of a badly-designed site back in 1995.

[NOLADEM]

7. They purged the site...Did someone back it up or mirror it?

[LilyLibber]

10. Morgan2 has archived Chad's posts

for the past year, and I think others have, too!

[wicket]

15. Whoa, that's awesome!!!!

:D

[feduppuke]

8. Can someone please help me out?

And catch me up on what happened? I spent the weekend watching football and haven't signed on in a while. Link?

[CottonBear]

11. Link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2701099

[feduppuke]

16. Thank You Both n/t

[LilyLibber]

12. Check it out here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2701099

[LTR]

9. It was running very slow before

Now it seems normal.

However, there is no mention of Castagana. Even tried searching for a few terms, such as "Woodland Hills". Nada.

They must have went on a massive dumping spree.

Costanza's profile and other articles are still up, though I'm not sure if any incriminating ones are deleted. Luckily, The Google always has ways of caching this stuff.

RimJob must be sweating bulletts over there. Guess that RV will come in handy when he flees the country. Hope they don't mind him speaking English in Mexico.

[Lucky Luciano]

Might the military commissions act come in handy?

LOL :rofl:

[back2basics909]

19. They just destroyed evidence of a fedral crime.

..maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. I hope somebody has informed the feds.

[LSK]

13. websites designed in 1996 do not handle extra traffic well

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Marnieworld]

14. ZING!

Ooooh burn!

:rofl:

[CoffeeCat]

17. Does the Castagna story mention FR?

Is this why they're experiencing increased traffic?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. Well, honestly what "features" could be turned off? They have none.

[Hubert Flottz]

23. Gawd has the red ass?

[Marnieworld]

25. yes

Gawd has the red ass.

:shrug:

[Hubert Flottz]

27. He's/She's mad at them for harboring mean folk and for being

evil and worshiping their gilded chimp.

[Marnieworld]

28. ooooohhhhhhh

ok I get it now. Let the wrath begin!

[madmusic]

26. So how do they consistently rank so high at alexa.com?

Maybe because they all link to each other's sites?

[Dead_Parrot]

29. Alexa gathers data from it's toolbar users...

...so by having a high percentage of freepers using the toolbar, it makes their site appear popular and important (which is why they keep posting Alexa data).

I actually think it's quite cute, like a kid sending themselves a valentine card.

[madmusic]

31. Makes sense, thanks.