DreamHost Status

As long as I’m down here at 9:30am on a saturday…
I need to do a quick NVRAM battery swap in one of our file servers. This should only take about five minutes. (This battery is what keeps all of your data 100% safe in the event of a power outage or other hardware […]

Demeter didn’t want to come back after a reboot. An admin is en route to the datacenter now to remedy the problem. No ETA at this time, but we’re hoping no more than 1-2 hours.
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Looks like it was just powered off. Its networking was being flaky, so I attempted a reboot, still nothing. […]

Both rhubarb and putney are being relocated. Both of these servers will be down for about 10 minutes during the rack re-shuffling. If your are unable to connect to your database, it is most likely hosted on one of these two servers. Check this space for updates.
-UPDATE (Thu Sep 28 02:53:16 PDT 2006)-
Both servers are […]

We will be moving the servers barranca.dreamhost.com, van.dreamhost.com, runts.dreamhost.com to a new rack at 12:00pm PDT (-0800). They will each be down for about 10 minutes. For those of you hosted on these servers, your web sites as well as FTP/shell access will be down during this time. Mail service will not […]

Webserver Ryu has experienced some sort of hardware issue and is currently being moved onto new hardware. If you’re site is hosted on Ryu it should be up within an hour, we’ll post an update here when we have more news.
Fake update: Save != Publish. Ryu’s all up now, if any of […]

We were making adjustments to our network that didn’t go as planned unfortunately so a number of you have noticed downtime or site/mail slowness again. That issue has been resolved. Sorry for the late announcement, the change was supposed to have no affect on our services. Everything is back to normal again. […]

We have a file server that is filling up at an extraordinary rate and we are working currently to find the cause. During the search some web services may be interrupted. We are working to get this issue resolved as soon as possible.
- UPDATE -
The issue has been resolved and any servers that […]

If you are using our filtering system you may notice some delays in delivery, we have checked to make sure we were not spammed and were unable to find any specific senders abusing the system so mail is being allowed through (none has been blocked or deleted so it should not be lost) but may […]

We had to replace the RAID card in the machine. The machine will be back up and running shortly. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience that the downtime has caused and appreciate your continued patience.

One day I will remember to post this in a timely manner.
More filer moving! We have to continue our efforts to optimize our rack space to continue to feed your ravenous apatites for disk space. The downtime window starts at about 10pm tonight and goes until 1am at the latest. This will affect all clusters, […]