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

Do we think Jeffrey was stressed about results day today?

Nah his results day is next week

So did we get swatted? I was asleep.

Is Jeffery back? The site keeps crashing on me. Anyone else?

I'm getting on ok, I think he's gone scuttling off with his saveloy between his legs.

I think that Jeffery was American due to his use of very mild 'swear' words like faggot and butthurt.
Honestly Jeffery, did you think we would blush at words like that?

I'm just going to blame every minor inconvenience in life on Jeffrey from now on.

Like when you get into bed and realise there's a fly somewhere in your bedroom or when you go to the loo before realising the previous person didn't replace the toilet roll. That's when you know Jeffrey's been .

Yes, I think the term "Oh Jerffrey!" at daily misdemeanors has been coined in this household now too. Will give dd someone to blame as we have no dog.

Yy lion

Looks like he's been at the custard creams i was planning to dip in my coffee too

Shouldn't this thread ho in Classics as a warning to would be Jeffreys? As in, don't bother Mate - they'll only take the piss? It's like trying to take cats for a
walk dealing with that lot.

Honey Stop it.

I've told you no. You can't keep him.

You never feed them.

You promise to clean out the cages and you never do.

And although you swear you will always take them for walks, who is it who ends up getting up at 6 to take them out in the rain?

Me. That's who.

So no. you aren't having any more.

And if you carry on, you know what you'll get...

What about keeping him like a class pet? I'm sure there's a corner in MNHQ for a cage/basket. Then names could be drawn out of a hat as to who looks after him for weekends/holidays.

CalmDownJeffrey you know that will just get class-teddy-competative.

Here's a photo of our hacker at Thorpe Park.

Well here's a photo of our hacker climbing over the top of the O2

Well this is my picture of our hacker enjoying a midsummer night's dream at The Globe.

And so on.

Me first Miss Me First!!! I will put him in a little bunny hat and a little bunny onesie and I will hug him and squeeze him...

Here's our Hacker learning the ancient fertility rites of an indigenous tribe in the Amazon rainforest.

Jeffrey after AlwaysOutnumbered has finished with him

Dammit it won't let me upload pictures costumefail.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/easter-bunny-costume-03.jpg

Jeffrey has left titter too. He was up to about 13 followers

titter is an excellent rename, I shall employ it forthwith.

CDJ this website is my new favourite time thief!

My mum used to childmind a little blu called Jeffrey. We used to call him Jeffrey bubbles bom-bom. I wonder if this is the same chap?

She childminder a little boy, for the record. No blus.... Whatever they are! Where's that spell check hacker when you bloody need him!

Instead of "it's all gone Pete Tong" how about "they pulled a Jeffrey"

Ha ha, it's all gone Jeff-wrong