DreamHost Status

The MySQL server Elmyra has been unresponsive to our attempts at resuscitation . This only affects databases on this 1 specific server. The administrative team is diligently working to get it back up with as little continued downtime as is humanly possible. Updates to follow as efforts progress.
UPDATE Server is UP, a single […]

After many more incremental improvements and configuration changes we’ve decided to upgrade our core router. The upgrade will increase CPU power as well as total throughput which should definitely alleviate many if not all of the problems we’ve been seeing lately.
The upgrade should be fairly seamless but we will let you know ahead of time […]

Today we have some good news, and bad news!
We’ve been contacted by someone very helpful at AOL and I think we have that problem squared away, at least for now. There have been no further blocks and the AOL contact has indicated that our thresholds for blocking are much higher now. We’re waiting […]

This is a critical security release, so upgrade your Joomla installs as soon as possible. You can read more about this in the Joomla team’s Release Announcement.
If you used our One Click Installer to install Joomla, you should be able to “one click upgrade” it as well:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=goodies.installer&
Just click on the Upgrade link next to […]

The hardware on our sake web server is being the replaced. The machine will be up and running shortly. We truly apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Please check back here for further updates.

We are having a few problems with a database that runs our mail authentication for imap/pop/smtp services. This problem is being looked into and should be fixed asap. We apologize for the trouble .

Swapping out the ram in a filer. It keeps hanging RSH connections, which is no good as quotas and other stuff can’t update! More to come in the next few days if this doesn’t fix it.

Beverly’s network is having some trouble, so I’m moving it onto new hardware.
Update 10:00pm. Beverly is up and working on its new hardware. If you have any sites hosted on Beverly that still aren’t working please contact support.

This time, the network will be going down so we can run some thorough diagnostics on our core routers. I’m expecting the downtime to last perhaps 15-20 minutes, but there’s a chance of some residual effects lasting for a short while afterwards.

The network maintenance last night went about as smoothly as it could have, without any actual downtime to any customers. Unfortunately, the ocassional slowness and downtime due to network connection issues remained for some of our customers. We’ve already opened new support cases with Cisco and our network consultant is getting more […]