NFS inflated loads (resolved)
We are experiencing connection problems with the file storage system that the following machines are mounted to. This is causing inflated loads on some of the machines. As a result making your website unresponsive. Our Admins are diligently working towards resolving this issue. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Please check back here for future updates.
7up arizona boba calpico cappuccino caprisun chai clamato coffee coke crush crystallight culligan dietrite eggnog espresso flipside geyser gingerale hansens hi-c hiball horchata izze jolt martinellis milk monster mrpibb mug nehi nesbitt nestea ninja optimizer orangebang ovaltine pellegrino perrier punch refresco riptide rootbeer schweppes shasta silk smoothie snapple squirt stewarts sunkist tab tampico tang tea tizer tropicana yoohoo
RESOLVED! See http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/03/28/file-server-head-unit-swap/
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March 23rd, 2007 at 1:25 pm
O NO!!!! I’m on Boba!!!! I hope my site wont go dead tonight.
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:40 pm
I’m on Nesbitt and all my sites are down since morning!! I dont know if thats related to this issue or not, but i need it resolved or my clients are going to leave me! Bloody dreamhost, why did I signed up.
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Keep at it, guys. Sooner is better!
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:52 pm
@George: Because it was cheap
Well, at leat i now understand why my sites where so slooow.
Good luck guys!
j
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I’m on monster and everything is down. NOT GOOD as I just opened an official forum for a band and they are wondering where it went. Please please get this resolved ASAP
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:55 pm
come on sterling, i gues you work for them, or just playing with your sites, we trying to run business, one week with dream host, and i don’t know what to do anymore! i’m in the edge of becoming crazy with this issues, only in one week…….
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Here comes another thread full of people bitching and moaning… you ever think that your (useless and uninformed) complaints might be using resources (file sql) on the same machines that we’re always complaining about?
I know dreamhost has been a pain in the ass but seriously..
IT IS NOT “NEWS” THAT YOU HAVE A SITE DOWN, OR SLOW… NO SH*T WE ALL DO
save it
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I’m on Perrier and I’m having no problems. O.o *shrugs*
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I’m on Milk… all sites running normally.
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
thus peace off then travis dude, and be happy with your slow shi.., and don’t dump your unhappiness on us but in the service provider, it’s new to me a week man on this, and even getting hate from you dude, seriously peace off man…
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Not happy about the downtime. It is true though. You pay for reliability. If you are a professional, and up time is critical to your clients, it is time to move to a dedicated server. I use to do that till I started workin’ for the man and no longer needed full service.
But Dreamhost still better than the downtime of the Microsoft IIS servers at the organization I work for, they constantantly are biffing out.
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:28 pm
why is the fact that my site wont load “low priority”
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:36 pm
ok i take that back… i didn’t notice it was “low” priority.. that sucks
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Boba is performing just fine for now, hope it stays this way
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
My sites are crashed too… but all mine are on Crackerjack and it’s not even in the list of servers having problems >;(
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:21 pm
For some reason with all of this stuff going down everything php is not working on my site…. I am on seltzer which is not affected?
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:24 pm
im on pellegrino, no problems to report… All is calm, I repeat: All is calm…
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Seriously, this is my first day with Dreamhost… I’ve just finished uploading my forum files and database. I managed to get almost 40 members back just to see the new domain, and now this bullcrap is out…
This is the first time. Next one and I’m moving back to Bluehost.
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Actually it is “low Severity” meaning it probably doesn’t effect the entire system. I am hoping they look at it as “high Priority”.
It looks like Nesbitt is up and running again.
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
がんばって GANBATTE!! That means, “go for it!” in Japanese ^_^
Good Luck for your work!
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
I’m on punch, all of mine are working fine. Thanks for keeping us posted guys, keep up the good work.
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:18 pm
I have to say, someone directed me to this blog and it has been funny reading it. I’m so glad i’m not on Dreamhost, I don’t think I could live with the downtime. Peoples sites seem to spend more time down than they do up.
Good luck with getting it fixed, however.
Mark
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:45 pm
My problem is finally resolved on Nesbitt. Than you!
It was 1 user who was overloading the CPU.
I’m now monitoring my sites using host-tracker.com
I would rather have less features and more reliability. Is it possible?
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Comeon guys!!! Lets get nesbitt up and running!!
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:58 pm
well, one out of my three websites is down, with a bad httpd_conf error. Interesting… I’m on mug.
I’ve been with dreamhost for over a month now and my website’s gone down at least twice, if not more. In a year at my last host, I am not aware of a single outage. I love the features of dreamhost, but I’ve certainly been underwhelmed by the reliability so far.
A little redundancy wouldn’t hurt, guys.
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:12 pm
One of my sites is on hansens and it seems all right tonight.
Peace,
Gene
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:20 pm
I want to signal that now my server [yoohoo] seems to work perfectly
Hope it helps.
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Thanks for letting us know… espresso wasn’t going so good
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:21 pm
I would happily pay *more* for a little reliability here at DH, and I’m sure there are other people who would too. See, I like Dreamhost’s features (and I paid a year in advance, so I’m stuck here) but their uptime leaves them looking like preschoolers playing webhost. And yeah, it upsets a lot of people (and since downtime is becoming a regular occurrence, why is anyone surprised to find people angry about it?). It would be super-nice is Dreamhost would consider a premium service for people happy to pay more for redundancy and other cool things that would keep their sites online.
I’d pay.
Now if only Dreamhost would come to the party.
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I have monitored my downtime carefully since coming here. Except for that infamous Sunday morning, and the hassles that occurred following the shut-down for the power cable replacement, downloads have been relatively short and caused few hassles. I realize that’s not true for everyone, but the difference between DreamHost and other services is that they air their dirty laundry in public. Other hosts place the status reports deep down in a page not easily accessed, in a message board, etc.
You’d be surprised what you read if you investigate. One host, for example, does a quarterly weekend maintenance, during which time your service is down as long as half a day.
The grass is NOT always greener.
Peace,
Gene
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I meant downtime — and not downloads.
Sorry ’bout that
Peace,
Gene
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Am on milk and have noticed consistant high loads in the pass few days. And my site is very slow / pinging out often now.
I guess am “lucky” that I just joined here a week back, and my couple of sites are not fully utilised (yet).
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:59 pm
unfortunely, my site are served on milk:(
unable to visit them now, damn
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Hi, my websites are on stewarts, hope you can fix it quickly. It’s been impossible to update anything since morning (I’m in Japan).
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:00 pm
I realize the difficulties in dealing with the loads that dreamhost is under. However I have difficulty understanding the mass consensus here on this comment forum. As a professionals with clients and website critical data how does dreamhost account for businesses? I also find it difficult to believe that owners of sites are just complaining and not doing. does dreamhost have a sales representative to discuss other options. Perhaps moving a business site to another machine (One not on this list)? Does the dreamhost staff have man power to deal with these issues. Because it is almost a whole day now and they can’t adjust the NFS servers? Or perhaps place some updates on the forum to gives us an idea of what is going on instead of writing us off as “Low” Severity.
I realize in the whole picture it may be a small to have only a few hosts affected and perhaps they are waiting on a shipment of new computer parts. Is there backups or a way to piggyback an NFS share to a backup computer till the main one is fixed?
I only comment because I feel left in the dark. I appreciate the fact that the post was announced so I know I’m not loosing my mind when my site is down. However what is being done about it? Is this a situation were I need to get a laywer and ask for my money back or can I trust dreamhost with my two year subscription that this isn’t a regular occurrences?
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:02 pm
PS: I meant my later comment in regards to the opinions expressed in the above comments. Not the original post by the staff. Opinions from other customers appreciated.
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Enough, man I’m getting out here, years publishing, this is the worse frustration ever, in only a week of DH service, I wait no more!!! :\
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:07 pm
10 hours downtime, my site is not even responding anymore…
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Ally said “I would happily pay *more* for a little reliability here at DH, and I’m sure there are other people who would too. See, I like Dreamhost’s features (and I paid a year in advance, so I’m stuck here) but their uptime leaves them looking like preschoolers playing webhost… It would be super-nice is Dreamhost would consider a premium service for people happy to pay more for redundancy and other cool things that would keep their sites online.”
WE would pay for premium service too. The $70 that a VPS costs is a bit high for us at the moment, but we really need something with a BIT more CPU headroom and reliability.
We’re paying for the cheapest Level 1 service now. But if Dreamhost’s Level 3 package offered anything like this, we’d move to it instantly. Otherwise there seems to be no point moving from level 1, since we have more than enough bandwidth and diskspace, and AFAIK the higher levels do not give you any more CPU resources or better uptime.
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Hey, guys.
I know what happens when our websites are down/slow. But I have to tell you my previous experiences in anothe host:
At around November in the last year, my websites were all sluggush and unresponsive. After several calls to the tech support, who stated that my websites were actually too much for the shared server’s account I was in, I decided to go to a VPS, using Vistuozzo software.
Instead of becoming reliable, te Virtuozzo software started showing high memory usage - remember, I had only a few websites in my account. And the support staff was always nice, but said that the server had no problem at all.
Then, last month I decided to move away, and for a security measure, I hooked my sites on two separate hosts, one being DreamHost.
For the last month everything went marvelously well, until today.
From my past experience, hardware failures are inevitable, and replacing backups, moving data is a very time consuming task.
To make things worse, the support staff is not dealing with a few dozen GB of data, but maybe several hundreds.
So, IMHO, if this failure happened, the best thing they could have done is exactly explaining WHY and WHO will be affected. Now, the next best thing would be to apply redundancy to their server.
But, for this ridiculously low price, I wouldn’t even ask for redundancy.
But as “Would pay for Premium Service” said above, if there were an option, I’d like to pay a bit more to have a more reliable server.
March 24th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Dietrite just came back up again - it was down for about 3 hours
March 24th, 2007 at 1:37 am
I feel so clammed on clamato :/ pffff
March 24th, 2007 at 1:39 am
Well dreamhost, my site just got down too…
I hope you manage to fix this site asap
March 24th, 2007 at 1:40 am
probably should have tonic on that list…my sites been up and down a dozen times in the last couple of days.
March 24th, 2007 at 1:47 am
Add tejava to that list as well…
March 24th, 2007 at 1:48 am
Severity: Low
excellent…
March 24th, 2007 at 1:57 am
There are still problems on Nesbitt, my problem is not resolved
March 24th, 2007 at 1:59 am
It’s kind of funny, actually. I’ve survived hurricanes, without any power or showers for weeks on end. But it always cracks me up when I feel like I’m back on dialup for just a little while during maintenance.
March 24th, 2007 at 2:03 am
My website is down, no load
March 24th, 2007 at 2:06 am
My site is on knockwurst and that is down, too