New DreamHost Status
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.
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April 14th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Nice one!
April 14th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Shoul I replace the old rss for the one in this page?
Thi comment place will be very helpfull!!
Thx dreamhost!
April 14th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Sweet, popped up in my RSS feed right away. Nice work!
April 14th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
We must be either very brave, or very foolish to allow user comments =)
April 14th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
I suppose I’m a bit confused. Both http://status.dreamhost.com/ and http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/ read the same. The message doesn’t state if this will “take the place” just in design or both design and URL.
April 14th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
Nice update, and like can post comment but yes, Pete is right : Brave or Foolish, choose =)
April 14th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Nueva página de estado de DreamHost…
DreamHost la empresa de alojamiento donde está SigT y que posee más de 100.000 páginas alojadas en sus servicios tiene una nueva página de estado para informar de cuando existen problemas en el hosting que viene a sustituir a la antigua status.drea…
April 14th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Now for some useful content!
April 14th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Not brave, not dumb: just transparent.
I think every company should follow your steps. That would make the business scene a much better place.
Congrats for choosing WordPress for this page.
April 14th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
This looks great! The only thing I’m missing is the option to select your timezone, so I don’t have to recalculate when the posts were in my own timezone. *hint*hint*
April 14th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Cool and nice new look. ^_^
Question though to anyone who’s listening, how is this site hosted exactly if I might ask? Considering it has to stay up even if I don’t know, the whole of DreamHost is blown away in a freak big bad wolf accident?
April 15th, 2006 at 4:05 am
Maybe it isn’t hosted at Dreamhost
April 15th, 2006 at 4:57 am
Glad to see this. Works fine in my RSS feed as well.
April 15th, 2006 at 9:14 am
New DreamHost Status Page…
The DreamHost off-network status page has been relaunched as a WordPress blog with a new layout at the old address status.dreamhost.com and on a new domain dreamhoststatus.com.
The site is hosted on a seperate network, in a seperate physical location,….
April 15th, 2006 at 9:34 am
In other words, it’s probably hosted by a different company. Considering this page rarely (if ever) goes down, I want to know who it’s hosted with!
April 15th, 2006 at 9:43 am
It’s actually hosted on a server run by us at our second data center we use for things like our secondary nameserver. It’s up in northern California.
April 15th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
That’s…a lot of feeds. Do the “main” ones(/feed/rss/ and /feed/atom/) aggregate all the content? I’m not about to subscribe to six feeds.
April 15th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Great! Looking forward to the “behind the scenes” stories.
April 15th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Every level of the RSS feed hieracrhy aggregates the feeds below it so the main feeds contain everything. We will be posting a lot more detail here than we have been posting to either our announcements or our previous DreamHost status page so it may end up being more content than some people want to see. In cases like that, a person can subscribe to only the information they would like to see.
April 16th, 2006 at 1:53 am
Great. A few minor things:
All the links/images/references go to dreamhoststatus.com, whereas the only domain I actually can access when the DreamHost DNS servers are down is status.dreamhost.com, as this site is titled in the first place. This means that (at least for me) this off-site site is garbled when the primary DNS servers are down (which is kind of defeating the point of it). I suggest you guys change the links to be relative instead of absolute.
Oh, and the DNS servers are screwy ATM
Cheers,
Vlad
April 16th, 2006 at 3:32 am
I can finally stop cringing when ever I visited the old style page .. thanks .. lol
Good work!
April 16th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Why are there so many network issues, that an off-site status page is required?
April 16th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
Call me “Master of the F’*N Obvious”… but shouldn’t the “status” page list the actual current “status” of the Dreamhost world? Something like:
“things are going swimmingly here at your favorite hosting provider” or
“everything’s fine, nothing is broken” or
“show’s over, move along nothing to see here” or
“we have no idea what’s happening, we are all busy watching videos of diet coke and mentos right now….”
I’m all about positive reinforcement of the new look, and I too would say, looks better than the previous version, but one thing seems a miss… the lack of information.
I visited this link today to get the back story and to be regailed with clever tales of heroic troubleshooting skills of the Dreamhost team in dealing with the situation announced to me in an email three days ago as follows:
“Dear Dreamhost Customers,
We are currently experiencing a fairly major network outage that is affecting a good portion of you. We’re not sure yet what the problem is but we’re working as quickly as we can to identify and correct it.
The outage could be affecting your website(s) and/or email accessibility. Please check http://status.dreamhost.com for further updates.
We do apologize for this inconvenience and ask you to bear with us while we get this sorted out.
DreamHost Network Down Team!”
This announcement seemed pretty doom and gloom with the potential actually affecting my site, considering the diagnosis was… “eh, we don’t know yet… but the walls are crumbling around us….”
Well? Did things get sorted out? or should I scramble to start the backup I should have done 2 months ago?
Seems to me this (ER Status Page) would be the place to see the update on this, only a few days after the event.
Also, on a user friendly note, it appears in this new format, when event information “is” to be displayed here, I need to know what happened technically (ie, hadware failure vs system outage) in order to click on the relevant status link, alerting me to the current status. Wow, I didn’t realize Dreamhost was bought out by Micro$oft !?!
Thanks for Playing!
April 16th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
excellent, I like the new setup for the status page. and I completely agree with Keropia. It would have been nice to see some sort of follow up email, or something on this status page explaining what happened, and what steps are being taken to prevent it from happening again.
April 17th, 2006 at 3:29 am
Nice work! However, none of the previous status posts are here, nothing prior to April 13 (but I have them in my RSS reader). Are you planning to re-post all the historical info here? Please do that as this site currently gives a bit of a misleading impression that nothing have every happened before this post!
Speaking of RSS, could you also offer a feed that includes everything? That’s the one I’d like to subscribe to.
Also, to echo a comment above, it would be a great help if you could include the time zone for posts. This one says 3.27pm but I have no idea which time zone (guessing, though: PST?). I’m in Europe (CET) so seeing the time would be helpful.
April 17th, 2006 at 5:30 am
They never kept the historical data on the old site… usually you had the last month or so’s happenings but nothing else.
April 17th, 2006 at 5:35 am
The full feed URL is (not including comments) is http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/feed/
if you were using firfox or safari (possibly others, i don’t know) they show you the main sites RSS feed when you visit the mainpage (click the RSS icon in the address bar of your browser).
April 17th, 2006 at 5:36 am
Oh and there is a link in the footer to all the entries… I’ll stop now.
April 17th, 2006 at 5:57 am
I the past 4 days we experienced almost 10 times our websites down for 30 to 90 minutes! now wesites are back but email are down!
why dreamhost don’t have redundant servers? why all this pb?
Thanks
Marin
April 17th, 2006 at 6:05 am
Much better interface, awesome that you guys allow comments. Now I wonder when the dreamhost panel will get a nice new design…
April 17th, 2006 at 6:41 am
Bob, thanks re the RSS feed info. After I clicked ‘ submit’ on my previous comment, I realized that there is already a full feed option.
Re historical posts, ok, but this new site doesn’t include *anything* prior to this post! Click on any of the categories and all you get is this post.
April 17th, 2006 at 8:01 am
Is there some kind of outage right now? Because all of my virtually hosted domains are down; e-mail’s still up, though.
April 17th, 2006 at 8:24 am
# Pete Says:
April 14th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
We must be either very brave, or very foolish to allow user comments =)
It’s foolishly brave…
April 17th, 2006 at 9:50 am
It would be nice to see all the status messages as soon as you arrive, and be sure that you were
I had a problem with my website and I had to go through every category just to make sure that there was nothing there!
Given that there are not so many emergency errors do we really need so many categories?
April 17th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Could you add some sort of local clock to the page? I’m on CET and when my site goes down, I check the page, and if there is a report that says “network out at xx o’clock” I need to convert the time/date to my own timezone and it hurts my head. Just a tiny “this page was refreshed at yy local time” at the bottom would work for me, then i can compare any timestamps with that, and see that it happened z hours ago, instead of doing painful maths.
Cheers!
/Fredrik
April 17th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Feature request for status.dreamhost.com:
How about a way to subscribe to posts here so we get emailed the latest news? Maybe subscribe to just certain categories? I’m sure there are some WP plugins out there that do just that.
Thanks for your effort and your transparency. Dreamhost is… dreamy.
April 17th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
All this comments are very nyce! But what about getting my website back on?! Come on dreamhost, try harder and faster!
April 17th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
You guys should be using a monitoring system that has a web front end and publish it here, i.e. MRTG, OpenNMS, JFFNMS, Nagios, Cacti.
If you’re proud of your performance and up/down times, you’ll let us see.
April 18th, 2006 at 3:12 am
Can anyone tell me why we still without website!? Anyone responsable from dreamhost? Just give us a justification. For cristh sake!!
April 18th, 2006 at 3:15 am
Please disconsider my last message. I have one answer.
April 19th, 2006 at 10:46 am
Dreamhost control panel is down, can’t submit a support ticket about it because the control panel is down! Doh!