DreamHost Status

Tomorrow night, starting at 10PM (Thurs Jan 18 22:00:00 PST 2007), we will be taking the following services offline for some emergency maintenence:
DreamHost Panel (panel.dreamhost.com)
DreamHost-provided webmail
DreamHost wiki (wiki.dreamhost.com)
The downtime window for this will be approximately 2 hours, expected downtime within that window is 1 hour. This will have no effect on customer sites, and [...]

Those of you with sites hosted on the galaga server may have noticed that your sites are unresponsive as of about 30 minutes ago. It appears that the server ran out of memory, but is not coming back up after our attempts to restart it. We are in the process of moving the server over [...]

We are currently having some problems with our central database , this will affect acess to the panel , wiki and various other internal services. Your web /mail service will not be affected by this outage. Please check back for more information as it becomes available.
UPDATE ** 1:15AM PST
Problems with the central database have been [...]

In about a half an hour we will be moving everyone on the server hill to the server “granola.” The reason why we are doing this is because the host name has been under attack and the only way to give everyone relief is to change their host! We apologize for this inconvenience, but the [...]

The web server harpo had one of it’s NICs fail earlier. It is currently being moved to new hardware and will be back up and running on a brand spanking new machine soon. Check this space for updates.

After repeated death threats and a customer actually setting himself on fire in our parking lot, I’ve finally updated our One-Click Install of Wordpress to version 2.0.6. It’s mainly some important security fixes, read more about it here:
Changes In Wordpress 2.0.6
If you installed Wordpress using our One-Click Installer, you can upgrade it by logging in [...]

An update on the previous CBL/Earthlink issue posted about here:
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/01/03/cblxbl-blacklist-issues-bouncing-mail/
CBL temporarily inhibited our IPs from being blocked several days ago, so our listings there (and with XBL/spamhaus) have ceased. We’re still talking with them to get this resolved permanently, and our IPs should not be blocked by them in the meantime. As many [...]

In our continued efforts to localize our server clusters physically, we will be moving the following servers to their new home (down the hall in our new datacenter!)
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We have been having issues for the past few days with mail being rejected due to several of our main IPs being listed, de-listed, and re-listed within a matter of hours in the CBL blacklist. Earthlink among many other providers use this blacklist to reject mail. The XBL blacklist also incorporates CBL into [...]

I just submitted a request to have our IP removed from the Composite Blocking List. Everything should be resolved shortly. In the meantime, I can suggest that you use your ISPs smtp server to send your outgoing messages. Your email will still be from your own domain name, the only difference is in the way [...]