DreamHost Status

Another battery just went in our file servers. (Different server!) I will be bringing it down shortly to swap it out. No data will be lost and expected downtime is 5 minutes.
All done!
Tue Oct 31 22:38:33 GMT [rc:notice]: The system was down for 193 seconds

To reduce overall server resource consumption we will be making a change to how we run our Analog-based website statistics reports. Currently, we generate three reports on a daily basis. The reports are called ‘Daily’ (the previous 24 hours of data), ‘Monthly’ (the current month to date), and ‘Longterm’ (limited reporting of all […]

Hardware failure with server Dollar is keeping it from loading it’s service. It is being moved to new hardware right now. Should be completed in under an hour. Update to Follow
UPDATE
All Apache’s are back up. If your site is still down on the server Dollar please submit a support request through the panel.

We need to do a quick battery swap in the file server that failed this morning. This is typically a 5 minute procedure.
All is back to normal with this file server:
Mon Oct 30 22:14:50 GMT [rc:notice]: The system was down for 203 seconds
Sadly not my best time (188seconds), but still pretty good. Those darn screws […]

One of our many file storage servers suffered an outage which has caused high loads and slowdowns on some servers (only affected one cluster/group of servers). The storage machine is back online, no data was lost. You may experience reboots, high loads and slowdowns on your machine for a short while longer, but everything is […]

I’ve just updated our One-Click Install of Wordpress to version 2.0.5. The bevy of security fixes and new features can be read about here:
Changes In Wordpress 2.0.5
If you installed Wordpress using our One-Click Installer, you can upgrade it by logging in at panel.dreamhost.com, clicking on the “Goodies” tab and then on the “One-Click Installs” page, […]

I apologize for not posting this earlier. It looks like selma was under a large denial of service attack. It was receiving about 100mbit of traffic from a large number of hosts. The major offendors have been blocked at our firewall and we are working on identification of the target, as well as restoring […]

Rhod ran into some troubles and had to be moved onto bigger, better hardware. We’re working on this issue as quickly as we can, and will post an update as soon as we’re finished.
- UPDATE Thu Oct 26 07:00:56 PDT 2006 -
Rhod is back up with new hardware!

More memory upgrades! This time it is:
malt, harpo, larchmont, and absinthe
Followed by:
ord, garth, and bixel!
Check this space for updates.
- UPDATE Thu Oct 26 04:01:14 PDT 2006 -
malt, harpo, larchmont, and absinthe are complete!
ord, garth, and bixel coming up!
- UPDATE Thu Oct 26 04:40:57 PDT […]

The folder where we temporarily store webmail attachments filled up. It seems that Squirrelmail was leaving stale files around, and it hit the maximum directory size. We are cleaning these out now. We will look in to why this was happening to try and prevent it in the future.