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

I quite like it, inappropriate posts from MNHQ is like having HelenMumsnet back can't we keep it Fenella, I'll feed it and walk it twice a day. Pleeeease?

Cooger

I wonder if he'd be prepared to give us his opinion of mum boots?

We're not sure what we've done to offend you
We have vaginas which means we are not allowed to use the Internet as that belongs to men with penises.

Yes Mutt good idea and then we can make a list of demands from him

1. Ability to edit posts

1. Glittery tickers. We all want glittery tickers

I think it's just trying to get out of tidying its bedroom, as there are so many wankerchiefs on the floor that it crunches when it walks.

I know we shouldn't laugh but that was actually quite funny, its a pedant hacker
Well he's missed one in Rebecca's post 'cos I'm sure borders should read boarders.

I really want to know what we did to make somebody feel the need to hack us.
Are you an ExH and a bit of a cunt? Did we tell your ExDW to LTB? If so, sorry about that. not

@CoogerAndDark

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

Sarah has just deleted herself

Stranger and stranger.......

Am I the only one who's finding this quite entertaining? I mean I know it's a ballache for Tech and HQ but it is fun to watch.

Reminds me of the days when I had a botnet

@Toooldtobearsed

Sarah has just deleted herself

Stranger and stranger.......

That one really was just an error, Toooldtobearsed - I was logged out and logged back in again, and posted twice.

Oh, I don't know, Rainbow. Sometimes it's just the challenge that excites them, rather than it being personal to the site.

I'll walk it and feed it if HoneyDragon goes on holiday, I promise.

This is quite entertaining. MMHQ I hope your supplies of gin are stocked up

Ok I have done the unthinkable and created a second MN account. For some reason, I am locked out of my other one (AnnieOnAMapleLeaf). I posted on this thread, refreshed and the site logged me out. When I went to log in again it told me my password was wrong. I hope I can get my old account back once the dust settles.

Whoops MNHQ I mean.

They always are, SewingAndCakes, they always are.

The one about fines for men harassing women in the street, I reckon.