Message left on the Freeper Facebook page...

[Archae]

"$348K a year for 1980's technology, and not a backup to be found anywhere... Brilliant."

[CJCRANE]

1. JimRob is keeping to his traditional old-fashioned values

even when it comes to technology!

[Frustratedlady]

2. I just woke up and haven't had a cuppa...

aka, I don't get it.

[Scootaloo]

5. Free Republic has been down for a good while now

And the guy who runs it rakes in tons pf money from his overpaid, undereducated dufus farm. FreeRepublic's design resembles some shit I saw scrawled on the itnernet in 1996, not just in content but in technology as well.

Basically you'd think for several hundred thousand dollars a year, this joker could at the least get stable servers.

[Frustratedlady]

8. What threw me was the $348K, as that's two congresscritters...

so I couldn't get the connection.

My bad! Thanks for the explanation.

[steve2470]

3. and this comment was from one of his freeper buddies, I love it ! nt

[KharmaTrain]

4. And The Clock Continues To Tick...

I admit I'm enjoying this...even though I do miss my occasional forays into the bubbleworld, watching this system crash has been quite amusing. I've had my share of crashes...most of them long ago when equipment was nowhere near as robust as today...back-up machines and drives are a part of doing business. I go crazy if I'm down for an hour...I'd be near suicidal if it lasted the better part of a week. But then...they're using PERL script software that went out of use around 2000 and I'm suspecting a bunch of Trash 80s...

The longer they're down the more people will gravitate to other sites. Then, there'll be the fallout when the system comes back up...especially if the databases were corrupted. I've always considered freeperville a relic of the bad old days...nice to see it marginalized.

Big kudos to Skinner, Elad and EarlG who keep this place up and rolling 24/7/365 and rarely is there a major outage or glitch.

[steve2470]

7. our donations are very well spent here, agreed ! nt

[Smll_Ax3]

19. I second the kudos' to the admins

good work being performed..

[Renew Deal]

6. It would take less time to start over with new "software" than to fix that old goat

[sharp_stick]

9. But that would cost money

and good ol' rimjob has a personal lifestyle to maintain.

I hope this bankrupts that site, it would be funny as hell to hear how it's all Obama's fault.

[kmlisle]

10. And where are you going to hear that? ;-)

[JHB]

12. Probably at FR -- under new management after he sells the name...

...to some other set of grifters.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

17. Some of the commenters on FR's Facebook page

are already coming up with their Obama zotted the server conspiracy theories. Some of those idiots actually think POTUS is pre-occupied with their existence .

[Renew Deal]

16. It would barely put a dent in their bloated budget

I think a vBulletin license is around $300. They can get business class hosting for like $1000 a year or less. They can get a full blown hosted service package from Invision for like $7,000.

[JHB]

11. That might mean they'd have to admit they made a mistake...

...and maybe even crack the "where's the money going?" nut over there wide open.

Safer to just breed up a whole new set of hamsters

[Renew Deal]

14. I agree

[alfredo]

23. Oh well, there's always Stormfront. It fits in nicely with their racism and jingoism.

[meegbear]

13. Cut 'em some slack ....

Do you know how many 5.25 inch floppies it took to back up that system?

Then you gotta start the upgrade from Windows 3.1 ....

[alfredo]

15. Vacuum tubes are expensive and hard to find.

[d_r]

18. 5.25 inch floppies

I'm sure there's a sex joke in there somewhere

[JHB]

21. There was

It's gotten as tired and outdated as the rest of their system

[Ganja Ninja]

20. Rim Job is sitting back and watching the checks roll in.

He's playing them like a fiddle. I'll bet he's picked up a 6 figure $um already from the desperate suckers.

[alfredo]

22. As of 1:15 EST Feb 21, it is still down.