[GOAL] DOAJ stability issues

[Clara Armengou]

Dear community,

We are happy to inform that our site is now back to normal and our services
have resumed. We are still working on a long-term stability strategy and we
will be able to update you on that and also provide a more detailed
explanation of our issues soon.

Thank you William and Jean-Claude for your suggestions, we brought them up
at our technical meeting on Monday and we will be looking at using some of
their services.

Thank you again for your patience over the last few weeks.

Best,


On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 4:59 PM, William Gunn <william.gunn at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 4:56 AM Clara Armengou <clara at doaj.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear community,
>>
>> We deeply regret the current problems with the DOAJ site.  After much
>> investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ
>> is effectively under attack from an unknown third party.
>>
>> We have deployed a number of counter-measures to halt this attack, but
>> with limited success, and are therefore forced to take even more extreme
>> measures to attempt to mitigate this.  We hope that this will work but we
>> cannot predict the outcome at this stage.
>>
>> The DOAJ team would like to apologise for the intermittent service and to
>> let you know we are doing our best to go back to normal operations.
>>
>> --
>> Clara Armengou
>> Project and Communications Manager
>>
>> *Directory of Open Access Journals*
>> *www.doaj.org <http://www.doaj.org> *
>>
>>
>>
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-- 
Clara Armengou
Project and Communications Manager

*Directory of Open Access Journals*
*www.doaj.org <http://www.doaj.org> *
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