Site outage update

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Hi everyone,

First and foremost: sorry for the loss of usual service over the last few hours.

To explain what's been going on: shortly after 10pm last night, we started receiving a large amount of spurious (i.e. automatic, rather than human) traffic. This is known in the trade as a denial of service attack: one in which a person, or organisation, deliberately floods a website with requests for pages, with the intention of overwhelming its servers and preventing bona fide users from accessing the site.

It goes without saying that we're doing everything we can to repel borders and keep the site up and running. We'll post on our social channels with any further updates (we're over here on Facebook and Twitter, if you don't follow us already), and in the meantime, thanks, as usual, for bearing with us.

MNHQ

And. ...why can't I update my posts? Favouritism!

Ffs, just shut the site down, sort it and reopen it when it's safe from this little event.

Nah, eventually the hacker, like everyone else, will be assimilated. By this time tomorrow he will have ran a maintence wash, veeted his plug hole and Gooled dragon butter.

You know me all too well ;)

Good luck to mnhq

Chuckling at Sarah mn's reference to Terry Wogan

It's tedious isn't it...and utterly pointless. I think someone just needs a cuddle.

Alarmingly, LocalEditorEssex, it was the first thing that came to mind

And have chucked away his toilet brush, HoneyDragon

Ooooh hello

I don't normally let people bunk in with me.

sarah

Could you bold your comments please like this when you're hacking our posts?

Would be easier my lovely for us to read them.

Wow that went very surreal there for a minute!

Mumsnet you must be really pissed off and working very hard to get normal service resumed. The worst thing is I bet you haven't had time for lunch, and we don't even have a sandwich and a salad icon to post it to you

Sorry typo: Pissed not pussed! Is that when cats get cross?

It looks as if your typo has been corrected, Miscellaneous.

Misc have they hacked and edited your post or are you going mad?

How helpful. Do you think he will stay and become some Arch Pedant, correcting stuff and sorting posts into readable paragraphs ?

It's like having a shy wee ghostie.

It defo said pusses !

The phantom spellchecker

I agree, I think now is the time to just shut everything down, deal with it properly, cut off the attention.

Given the lack of spelling ability and grammatical errors on his twitter page, I doubt Arch Pedant is a job he'll go for.

Eh, Tom?

I know we shouldn't laugh but that was actually quite funny, its a pedant hacker

Maybe if he just stuck to correcting typos in a friendly manner?
Let's face it, if he does use the contactus email address he's going to be hanging around at least a week before he gets a reply so he might as well make himself useful in the meantime.

Sigh...

Zombie is not best pleased. Not that that makes a tuppence worth's of difference.