Ron Paul for Congress sends out letter for Rand

[Matt Collins]

I got a letter in my in-box today from RonPaulForCongress. It explained a lot about Rand and provided a link to his website www.RandPaul2010.com

[ClayTrainor]

....and now the site doesn't load :(

[Cowlesy]

I can picture Rand -- "Way to go Dad...crashed my website!"

[0zzy]

And he needs to get a new server! It crashed again. The most important outlet for him and it crashes everytime people want to see it.

[jt8025]

Down for me too!

[MRoCkEd]

um.. they should have prepared for this

[jt8025]

Fundraising graph says "Database err"

[MRoCkEd]

Anyone know who is running this site? Are they working on allowing more hits?

[Cowlesy]

I thought it was Michael Nystrom? I am sure he's scrambling right now trying to fix it.

[torchbearer]

I thought it was Michael Nystrom? I am sure he's scrambling right now trying to fix it.

if he is running it off of his own private server, he may need to drop down the money for a T-1 line and a top-line server.

[hotbrownsauce]

if he is running it off of his own private server, he may need to drop down the money for a T-1 line and a top-line server.

Yes, T1's are expensive.... it may be cost efficient to just use a company with existing high end bandwidth capabilities. It would also help if the main page of the site is lite. 50,000$ is way more than plenty for a nice server.

[He Who Pawns]

Anyone know who is running this site?

http://i42.tinypic.com/27zfzpl.jpg

[Matt Collins]

www.Forest.net


I've used them for almost 15 years and have been VERY pleased.

[No1ButPaul08]

I thought it was the same guys from Schiff2010 running Rand's site. They are from California and the site's are very similar. I also think they post on the blog on randpaul2010.com

[Matt Collins]

I thought it was the same guys from Schiff2010 running Rand's site. They are from California and the site's are very similar. I also think they post on the blog on randpaul2010.com
You are thinking of PeacPAC with Chad Peace. They simply ran the "draft Rand / Peter" campaign.

[No1ButPaul08]

You are thinking of PeacPAC with Chad Peace. They simply ran the "draft Rand / Peter" campaign.

Yeah I know that, but Rand's official site is very similar to the draft schiff/rand sites.

[He Who Pawns]

You are thinking of PeacPAC with Chad Peace. They simply ran the "draft Rand / Peter" campaign.

Maybe they should be running the actual Rand2010 site now.

This is a huge failure we are witnessing today. And Rand's site has had trouble since day one.

[MRoCkEd]

It seems to be working now, although the donation widget has been removed.

They better be prepared for the next Ron Paul emails and moneybomb.

[Cowlesy]

Relax, it's not some big fail. This happened many times during the Presidential campaign in 2007.

[Cowlesy]

Chad is on the team...;) Has little to do with any one person.. I'll take the blame if we need someone to blame.:cool::cool:

<insert clever Monty Python gif pointing at Truth as a witch>

[steined]

*sigh* http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Why people keep re-inventing the wheel is beyond me. There are plenty of hosting solutions out there that don't cost a lot of money that leverage existing infrastructure that is proven and reliable. Oh, did I mention cost effective and reliable? And scalable?

:P

[0zzy]

he just raised 25K since the email has hit. niceeeee

[MRoCkEd]

he just raised 25K since the email has hit. niceeeee
no he hasn't
more like 1,000

http://www.randpaulgraphs.com/graphs/today.php

[Umbro2914]

^^ you mean 10,000 -- which is still very nice!
just goes to show how many more people just found out about Rand today through Dr. Paul