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Stuart

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11,639 posts

280 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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We've been suffering from a denial of service attack which kicked in late yesterday evening and succeeded in taking the site down until a few minutes ago.

Pete and Matt Dell have been working through the night to fix this and we appear to have a solution in place.

Service may be a bit lumpy, so please be patient (for a bit longer...)

This was simply a DoS attack. No user data has been compromised.

mrtwisty

3,057 posts

194 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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...and breathe.....

Aizle

12,429 posts

204 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Was it Mumsnet or the IAM?

ali_kat

32,152 posts

250 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Well done chaps!

I did wonder if the article in the Register led to someone trying to test what you'd done? wink

Amused2death

2,526 posts

225 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Thanks for your efforts, I was going mad watching C beebies with my daughter.....biggrin

Mannginger

10,263 posts

286 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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ali_kat said:
Well done chaps!

I did wonder if the article in the Register led to someone trying to test what you'd done? wink
Yup me too! Well done and thanks for getting it back up and running, no doubt Garlick's eyeing the overtime bill as we speak!

Mini1275

11,098 posts

211 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Phew.

ThunderSpook

3,908 posts

240 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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In the middle of the Irish Sea with nothing to do and no PH. Cruel Gods.

Papa Hotel

12,760 posts

211 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Good effort chaps. smile

Don1

16,795 posts

237 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Aizle said:
Was it Mumsnet or the IAM?
BRAKE....

Zebrano

820 posts

244 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Keep up the good work!

JonnyFive

29,897 posts

218 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Any idea why they're doing this to PH?

anonymous-user

83 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Up all night to keep PH going? bow

Thesaint01708

935 posts

186 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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I had a cold sweat forming all over my back with the thought of having to do some work today frown

thanks for the dedication and out of hours cocaine amphetamine alcohol coffee fuelled bug fixing

Papa Hotel

12,760 posts

211 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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JonnyFive said:
Any idea why they're doing this to PH?
Some spotty virgin read The Register, saw PH getting mentioned and thought he'd get on what appeared to be a relatively easy target. He'll have spent all last night thrapping himself silly at his jolly wheeze.

Meanwhile, his "friends" still don't know of his existence and his future wife is, unconventionally, called Fleshlight. His parents would be proud, but they've worked hard all their lives to keep their 43 year old son in Wotsits and Vimto and want to enjoy their retirement. They're secretly hoping his massive arse gets a nice DVT clot and he gets taken off their hands quickly.

Honk

2,005 posts

232 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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JonnyFive said:
Any idea why they're doing this to PH?
Gene Vincent?

Eric Mc

125,609 posts

294 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Good to have it back. The withdrawl symptoms are particularly unpleasant.

C3BER

4,714 posts

252 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Welcome back guys, missed you xxx hehe

spiritof'76

1,424 posts

253 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Appreciation to the night shift clap Much caffeine i assume wink

C3BER

4,714 posts

252 months

Saturday 13th August 2011
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Mobile please::

More coffee required to stop these dicks from pissing around.