Archive for October, 2006

Panel down (and back up)

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago (October 16th, 2006 at 8:24 pm PST)

Our private network has had some unexpected issues that we’re currently working on. Until they are resolved, the panel and related updates will be down. We’ll post more information as we receive it.
As of 8:45pm PDT, the panel is back up. It looks like our firewall had some issues requiring a reboot. [...]

Brazil is Being Moved to New Hardware (Complete)

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago (October 16th, 2006 at 6:07 am PST)

The hardware that brazil is on failed. It is being moved over to a new server now and will be back up soon. Check this space for updates.Mon
-UPDATE Oct 16 06:31:07 PDT 2006 -
Brazil is up and running on new hardware and websites are coming up now.

Panel Issues and One-Click Install Emails

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago (October 15th, 2006 at 6:41 pm PST)

The issues with delayed user creations and one-click Installs has been cleared up by our admin team. During this fixing and troubleshooting process there was a 2nd bug created that effected many users. One-Click install emails were dispatched to a large amount of customers, despite the fact that no changes had been made on their [...]

Webpanel Issues

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago (October 13th, 2006 at 9:54 pm PST)

There are some problems creating emails and doing one-click installs. We’re currently investigating this, and hope to have it resolved shortly, we’ll post an update when we do.

Mail database maintenence (completed)

Posted 1 year, 11 months ago (October 10th, 2006 at 3:27 pm PST)

Several of our databases which are used by our mail system will be going offline for maintenence early tomorrow morning, Wed Oct 11 02:00:00 PDT 2006. Expected downtime is 30 to 60 minutes. This will take DreamHost webmail for all domains offline during that time. Webmail should be the only service interrupted [...]

File server shuffling

Posted 1 year, 11 months ago (October 10th, 2006 at 2:52 pm PST)

Tomorrow night, 10/11/2006, at 10PM Pacific we will be moving 4 or 8 file servers into new positions in their racks. This is the same as previous moves, and is to increase their density/optimize their placement in the racks. This will affect most clusters. Downtime is estimated to be about an hour, however you will [...]

Simplified Announcement Categories

Posted 1 year, 11 months ago (October 10th, 2006 at 2:29 pm PST)

We’ve changed our categories for announcements here a little bit to hopefully clarify some of the information being announced. The new categories are mostly severity based and reflect how large of an impact on our services a particular announcement has. This is still a work in progress so feel free to comment on [...]

Tequila being moved to new hardware (fixed!)

Posted 1 year, 11 months ago (October 10th, 2006 at 12:39 pm PST)

We are in the process of moving tequila over to new hardware. It seems something is wrong with the networking. This affects your ssh, ftp, web and jabber services. Email and mysql is unaffected. Things should be up and running in under an hour.

All fixed! It seems the network problems were actually related to a [...]

RAM Upgrades!

Posted 1 year, 11 months ago (October 9th, 2006 at 1:32 pm PST)

The following servers are going down for memory upgrades:
olympic
zuma
absinthe
pretzel
cognac
mayo
bellflower
wilshire
otto
They will [...]

Database server odie, hardware troubles.

Posted 1 year, 11 months ago (October 7th, 2006 at 8:23 am PST)

The database server ‘odie’, is having hardware issues which have impacted its stability. Those of you who have recently signed up, and are having recurring database troubles, this is more than likely the cause. We’re in the process of migrating everyone’s data to a different server, and will update this post once it [...]