DreamHost Status

My apologizes to users on Nimitz, I rebooted it once and it went haywire again before I could see what was going on so I had to reboot again. It’s doing just fine now but I wasn’t unfortunately able to determine the cause - I’ll be keeping a close eye on it though with a […]

The ‘fairfax’ server’s hardware went kaput! We are failing it over to new hardware now and everything will be back up and running soon!

Our current web log rotation system relies on our back-end automation system as well as steady access to our back-end database to run properly. It has been in place for many years and works fine most of the time but it is more complex than it needs to be and occasionally fails to work […]

We’re experiencing central database issues which is affecting the performance of the control panel. The admins are currently looking into it. We’ll post an update as soon as we know further. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.
Please note: YOUR SITES, EMAIL AND DATABASES ARE NOT AFFECTED by this.

We will slowly roll out the Ruby on Rails upgrade next week, starting Monday April 21. We will start with two machines first, and then upgrade the rest of the servers. Please freeze your Rails applications if you have not already.
To freeze your Rails application, all you have to do is run rake freeze_gems and […]

It looks like one of our network file servers was missing an IP address from its network configuration. Initial testing/poking about with it wasn’t promising for a fix. Further futzing revealed that we may have been trying to assign it to the wrong physical network interface. It looks like our servers are picking up the […]

We have updated our Apache 2 configuration so you can use Digest Authentication in addition to the more standard Basic Authentication. Most of our Apache servers are still Apache 1 and this change is only for Apache 2. Anyone who has added a subversion repository through our web panel is currently hosted on […]

Thank you all for the comments! We appreciate the praise for the design but the praise really should go to Wordpress and the great selection of templates available. This is just an ‘off-the-shelf’ template customized a little bit.
We have also seen some confusion about how this website will be used and what you, […]

This information was posted to the previous version of status.dreamhost.com but did not survive the transition to this new version. Sorry!
The network issue previously reported on April 12, 2006 at 5:49 PM PST was fully resolved at around 7pm PST that same evening. The problem stemmed from the addition of some new IP […]

Welcome to the new and improved DreamHost off-network status page. This page will take the place of the previous status.dreamhost.com page as well as also host additional information about the technical goings ons behind the scenes at your favorite web host.