Archive for March, 2007

NFS inflated loads (resolved)

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago (March 23rd, 2007 at 1:15 pm PST)

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 […]

Yet more DreamHost central database maintenance

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago (March 22nd, 2007 at 4:32 pm PST)

We will once again be performing more maintenance on the dreamhost central database beginning Monday, March 27 2007 at 22:00:00 PDT. Downtime window is 6 hours, expected downtime within that window is 4 hours. This will take the following services offline:
DreamHost Webpanel
DreamHost-provided Webmail
All other mail services will remain online, including pop3, imap, and smtp, only […]

Riffraff mysql server having issues (resolved)

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (March 14th, 2007 at 6:30 am PST)

The riffraff mysql server stopped responding suddenly, a tech is on the way to the data center to check what happened to it. Should the hardware have problems, we will move the databases to new hardware. Check back for updates.
– UPDATE –
It is rebooted and back up and running fine. We will […]

Moving some file servers

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (March 12th, 2007 at 3:16 pm PST)

Tomorrow night, Tuesday March 13, 2007, at 10PM Pacific time (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/) we will be moving two file servers down the hall to be localized to their web/mail servers for the “swarthy” cluster. This will disrupt email, web, ftp/sftp, and shell service for anyone on the affected file servers. This it to make those servers go […]

Network slowness for the past hour

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (March 9th, 2007 at 1:32 pm PST)

It appears that I, in a stroke of brilliance, mis-pasted the same IP addresses into both of our core routers. This caused an effective bridging loop as both of our routers fought for the ip address. This pegged their CPUs and the uplink between them. We have removed the offending IP addresses and the system […]

Network upgrade!

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (March 9th, 2007 at 10:27 am PST)

Update: We’re all done with the upgrade. The available bandwidth between facilities is now 3x greater than it was before, with the ability to double the current amount at a moment’s notice. We hope this takes care of all of the recent issues.
We’re upgrading the network very soon so that we can […]

Server “Fidget” is having hardware problems. (Updated)

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (March 9th, 2007 at 7:49 am PST)

Unfortunately hardware problems have brought fidget to its knees. Our admins are in the process of replacing it at this moment. It should be back on-line again in about 15 minutes. Another update will be posted once the work is complete.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
Update: Fidget now is running on new hardware and […]

More DreamHost central database maintenance

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (March 8th, 2007 at 2:23 pm PST)

We will be performing more maintenance on the dreamhost central database beginning Monday, March 12 2007 at 22:00:00 PDT. Downtime window is 6 hours, expected downtime within that window is 4 hours. This will take the following services offline:
DreamHost Webpanel
DreamHost-provided Webmail
All other mail services will remain online, including pop3, imap, and smtp, only […]

Gradius web server having networking issues

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (March 8th, 2007 at 10:29 am PST)

The gradius web server is having trouble with the public network interface, an admin is checking it out right now at the data center. If it is found to be a web server issue and not networking hardware, the server hardware will be replaced. Please check back for updates.
– UPDATE 10:43:57 PST […]

Panel Login

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago (March 7th, 2007 at 7:40 pm PST)

If you have trouble logging into the panel clear all of your panel.dreamhost.com and dreamhost.com cookies and try again. The table Lock today was very long due to the size of the session table and we cleared it out in order to bring the panel back online faster. In the end it was decided having […]