As a reminder to the dedicated customers e-mailed last week, your servers are being moved now to the LAX datacenter. Estimated downtime is right around two hours.
Happy DreamHost Mule-Pack Team
Sorry for the short notice, but we will be taking the DreamHost Web Panel down tonight at 10PM PST (Mon Jan 29 22:00:00 PST 2007), for some emergency database maintenence. Downtime window is 2 hours, expected downtime within that window is 1 hour.
This will have no effect on customer sites, databases and email, all [...]
The database server “riffraff” is having hardware problems. We’re working to get them figured out and resolved and get it back online as quickly as we can.
Watch this space for updates.
Edit 10:15pm pst by Jamesh: I’ve just finished putting a new raid card in Riffraff and it’s up and working now, if you’re having [...]
The packages are done, testing is complete, and I’m ready to roll out the new version of Rails - 1.2.1. Slowly, of course!
I will start slowly upgrading servers with Rails 1.2.1 starting Monday, January 29. There is one caveat to this.
If you are running Typo you have to freeze your Rails! If you’re afraid your [...]
We are starting to roll out some Ruby gem updates and additions. We always try to leave at least two versions of every gem installed so these upgrades add a newer version while the previous most recent version is also left installed. Let our support team know if you experience any issues with [...]
The server moves are almost all done! We do have a few major server moves left though. One of those will start tonight at 10 p.m. PST. The following servers will be switching racks tonight:
lenny, mcclure, millhouse, willie, seamus, burns, brandine, kearny, cletus, apu, lisa, skinner, chalmers, wiggum, limbo-postal, bigredgiant, marge, flanders, ralphie, cheeky, alexander, [...]
Comments: 6448:58PM PST
The problem is now fixed, and all updaters but one finished running. The last one is on our biggest server cluster (group), and it’s safe to say that it should finish within one hour.
Again, sorry about the inconvenience!
We’re currently experiencing problems with our automated mailbox updaters. This means that mailboxes and email addresses [...]
We are experiencing load spikes on some of our webmail servers. We still have others to handle the webmail flow, but this problem may cause intermittent slowness and/or inaccessibility.
The admins are working on it, and it should be fixed soon. Please check back for updates.
Very sorry about the inconvenience!
Less bugs! More security! Read on:
Changelog for Wordpress 2.0.7
Changelog for Zencart 1.3.7
I also fixed two bugs with our One-Click installer that have been noted for a while:
1) I added “–dereference” to all of our “chown -R” commands, which will hopefully resolve all the problems our users were having with symlinked folders having the wrong permissions [...]
The following four servers are in the wrong place!
sunkist, punch, sprite, and shasta
They will be going down in about 10 minutes for a quick move to their proper location. This move is within the same datacenter. Total downtime per machine will be no more than 10 minutes.
- UPDATE Wed Jan [...]
