Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
The Tribe...What's going on!
It looks like all activeboard sites are having problems tonight.
The Boston one is messed up and so is momscorner.activeboard.com.
Here is what is wrong with the Tribe!!
We experienced a large Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) on
our main network. We block this kind of malicious activity on a regular
basis and keep it from affecting the services we provide. However, this
was a very large scale and targeted DDoS attack which caused the hour
window of intermittent availability you may have experienced. To give
you and idea of the size, during the peak of the attack we were
filtering over 10 billion malicious connections per hour. More
information about DOS attacks can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
While we take every effort to resolve network issues as quickly as
possible, this was a very different and unique circumstance which
required more time to resolve. We are not satisfied with the length of
time our services were effected, however, it easily could have taken
longer to resolve if not for the technology utilized within our current
infrastructure.
We are currently in the process of restoring our servers and expect
service to be back up to standards shortly. We sincerely apologize for
any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have anymore questions or
concerns please don't hesitate to ask.
Cheers,
Sparklit Support
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