WeUA.info -Ukraine Own Social Network

WeUA.info,  a new social network from Ukraine. Yeah. It's true, Ukraine is soon launching its own social network called "WeUA.info" whose slogan is "We live for Ukraine". It was to be launched last Monday, but unfortunately, the social network WeUA.info fell victim to a cyber attack before its launch.

WeUA.info is facing a strong DDOS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack due to of site getting offline. 

"We have not opened the website for the public yet, although we are already seeing very strong DDoS attacks," WeUA's founder, Bogdan Oliyarchuk, told Mashable via email. "We see deliberate attacks every day."

Oliyarchuk noted that the attacks are from Russia and elsewhere in Ukraine. It is difficult to track the attack, he added. 

Oliyarchuk also says he and his team had worked hard for more than one year, building a social network that will bring Ukrainians together.

"A year ago, we came up with an idea to [connect] Ukrainians all over the world. There are enough talented Ukrainian programmers who can implement this. We have several talented people who work abroad on Facebook, in Google, so it got me wondering — why not make a social network in Ukraine?" Oliyarchuk said. "So we tried and launched the beta version with 1,000 people having subscribed, which made us realize we had to hire people to work on a more serious version of the website."

"It's not just for Ukrainians," he continued. "We hope to become a democratic social network. We have very challenging objectives and ambitious goals." One of those goals is to introduce an encryption system, so no one can get access to their users' messages.

The WeUA.info team is planning to move their server abroad due to their previous Government. But now they have a new government that has also got a very good response from its users, so they may build the server in the country only. At times some of the servers are still abroad, as they mentioned. 

When I checked the site, it's live and working fine, but maybe they still have some technical issues, as on the home page of the site they wrote a message which states the following-

Dear customers!
Due to the fact that overnight the site were carried out attacks outside we have to suspend the site for technical reasons.
Registering on the site will be available soon.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
stay tuned.
WeUA Team