It’s established that catch-all email addresses are big ol’ spam magnets. With one of these active, you’re going to get spam, and very likely lots of it. Last month we disabled forwarding of catch-alls (in most circumstances) to external addresses because this puts our servers in the position of forwarding a whole lot [...]
Make note of the new PHP5 requirement before you upgrade if you’re running PHP4 on your domain. Full release notes available here: link.
cienega.dreamhost.com is currently not being happy. We’re currently working to make it happy again and hope to have it online again soon.
Update Sat Jul 8 22:20:35 PDT 2006: cienega back online.
There was an bug in the dns script Friday that caused some dns record changes not to add, update or remove as expected. We have corrected the issue and dns updates are functioning normally again. If you have waited the normal couple hours for dns changes to propagate and are still not seeing [...]
The MySQL database mimsey has gone down and we have an Admin in route to get it backup again, It should be up soon as he just a couple of miles to travel. Sorry for the downtime. We’ll keep you posted.
Update Sat Jul 8 11:18:23 PDT 2006: mimsey is back online, all databases [...]
The server venice.dreamhost.com will be going offline in 10 minutes (thats Wed Jul 5 15:50:00 PDT 2006) to have some memory added to it. Total downtime should only be 10 minutes. This will only affect websites hosted on this server, so if you’re not sure if you’re on venice, chances are, you are not. Email [...]
The server charm.dreamhost.com will be going offline in 10 minutes (thats Wed Jul 5 15:20:00 PDT 2006) to have some memory added to it. Total downtime should only be 10 minutes. This will only affect websites hosted on this server, so if you’re not sure if you’re on charm, chances are, you [...]
We have had to temporarily suspend outgoing email from our webservers due to an enormous spam run. We are having trouble pinning down the exact cause, however it is a distributed spam run across multiple servers (at least 20 that we have found so far). Once this has been resolved we will reenable it and [...]
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