DreamHost Status

Currently the server that runs the Dreambook service is down. We have an Admin assigned to it and he will have it back up as soon as he can. Keep an eye on this page for an update on the issue. We apologies for the downtime

Catch-all autoresponders are being disabled right now, per the announcement on the 10th:
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2006/07/10/catch-all-auto-responders-to-be-disabled/
We ended up giving an extra week on this one, but we didn’t receive any volume of emails from folks this time around saying that they really depended on catch-all autoresponders, so we don’t expect any real problems. If you’re caught by [...]

We have identified some lingering email issues related to some equipment coming up with incorrect configurations after the power outage. We believe all of these issues have now been resolved. We’ll also be reviewing the configuration setup of the equipment to make sure it can all handle loss of power more gracefully in [...]

The melrose server had a network card go bad, we are failing it over to new hardware right now.
Update: The new server is up and the configuration scripts have finished.

One of our datacenters is taking us offline in a few hours to repair a broken Power Distribution Unit. Fortunately there’s only a few live servers in there so we’re simply going to move them over to our main datacenter. This will only affect the following servers: popcorn, rollo, compton, a shared database server and [...]

At this time it looks like we’ve gotten everything back up. All websites, email and all other services should be up and running. If you are still experiencing problems with one of your services, contact our support team right away.

The power outage has been confirmed and is ongoing. Evidently DWP suffered a power plant loss in Northern California (due to record temperature levels) that quickly triggered outages in a few Los Angeles neighboorhoods. Our datacenter is currently under generator power and we working on getting everything back online as quickly as possible. Once we [...]

At least a portion of our datacenter seems to have lost power very briefly. We have technicians driving to the datacenter now to see exactly what the situation is. If your site is down, we should have it taken care of shortly.

The cheeky server had a issue with one of its network cards and is being failed over to new hardware. Apaches are already starting to come online and the failover should be done shortly.

All the databases from sekhmet are back online. The process took longer than expected, and we ended up having to just move all of the data to a new server. Everything looks to be online with it though, and queries are running again in force.