Free Republic Down Temporarily

Update- Free Republic is back online!

One of the best conservative forums on the internet, Free Republic, is down at the moment and I'm not sure why.  I haven't been able to access it since yesterday.  I found this group of messages which might provide some light on the situation.

Here's one of the messages:

Bad news. FR is down hard. John says he can't even communicate with the system.
He's going to have to drive up to the data center to get hands on. Hopefully,
it'll be back online later tonight. Sorry about the downtime.
Jim

And then later:

The clock was fixed. And the server has been up solid all this year since John
finally found and fixed the problem that had been plaguing us. Haven't been down
in many moons -- until today.
Jim

Hopefully it's online again soon.

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