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

Kebab meat and chips please, usual, Then back in the oven please, your not done yet.

Closer bound to be in the Mirror or the Daily Fail

But what would be the headline? "Mumsnet hacked and typos corrected"?

But what would be the headline? "Mumsnet hacked and typos corrected"?

Dr: Calm down Jeffery

I know it was a while ago, but I'm just catching up.

FUCKING LOVE THAT BAT

Kleptronic I couldn't give a shiny shit whether pineapple fritters are on the "approved chippy menu" or not. I left the UK in 2010 and haven't had a divine pineapple fritter in 5 years!! Just let me live in ignorance please.

If the Daily Fail contact MNHQ to comment on this outage, please let them provide a comment together with a sad-face photo of Justine! That would be amazing!

Oh a Justine sad face would be awesome!

justine MUST wear a wrap dress and nude heels

Tis the Daily Mail Law

Just caught up with this thread. Has Ferris Bueller gone now?

YY the Daily Mail must do a piece on this, mentioning the value of all our houses, our burgeoning bumps, and endless legs and the flaunting thereof.

I don't want to discuss where my bumps are burgeoning from, thank you.

I miss sharing my box. Now I only get to share MNHQ boxes. Which mean they've quoted me. Which means I'm in trouble. Again.

He's No Fun at all. A few of us have gone on twitter and mocked him and he doesn't even cry...

To whoever put ' hello Jeffery' on his titters, have a

Brilliant.

Twitter! Not titter

His face looks a bit dry in the Twitter picture, and that lippy is all wrong. He should get over to S&B.

Flying - something like "UK's largest parenting site brought down by lone hacker", I guess. I would also like a sad face picture of Justine to accompany any quote (or rather )

Mr Hack needs to get over to the Style and Beauty board for some advice on facecream, as that white paint really accentuates his wrinkles and his lipstick has gone a bit squiffy

Ha ha, x-post Sparkling

at titters. Jeffery wont responding on titter sadly.

Those memes are great.

I am sure they could sort it all out Closer. Hope that's not the picture he uses on Tinder.

Don't suppose we could refer to Him as Ferris from now on could we? Only that really made me laugh.

SGB "He's No Fun at all. A few of us have gone on twitter and mocked him and he doesn't even cry..."

I was going to head for the bunker with the gin barrels but having read that I think I'll head for the balcony and open a bar.

Little umbrellas optional. Large measures obligatory. MNHQ most welcome (but I'll keep a tab. After last time. Ahem)

please can twitter always be known as titter after this thread ?