Now that's told you all. Don't go biting hands that are handing out freebies and looking them in the mouth horse-style
Despite my not having noticed any problem , it seems there have been.
Anyway, as ddd said, we have enjoyed remarkably stable hosting over the last few years, and that is down to his hard work. Mumsnet wouldn't have survived without his support, so I think some cheers are in order.
Unfortunately, there are some nasty people out there who think it's fun to try bring services down by flooding them with traffic so that they can't respond to genuine requests - it sounds like this is what's been happening. If the site's not available, try again 10 minutes later. If you are worried about losing a message you've written, select it all with your mouse and copy it to your computer's clipboard (Ctrl-C on Windows, Apple-C on Mac), then you can paste it into a new message when you try again (Ctrl-V on Windows, Apple-V on mac).
In these diffficult times, we need to be showing some blitz spirit. [Adopt 40s accent] Hunker down ladies, they won't beat us with their cowardly attacks. We shall prevail.
Lossa love,
Tech
PS I did think specifying the currency of the zero was a nice touch.