DreamHost Status

The web server Wiggle is being failed over to new hardware . Total downtime will be ~1 hour . We will update as the move finishes.
Update: Failover completed. If you have any further issues with your site on Wiggle, please write in to support.

Just a reminder that the scheduled maintenance of the DreamHost central database will begin in approximately 35 minutes, at Tue Mar 6 22:00:00 PST 2007. This will take the DreamHost Webpanel offline for up to 4 hours.
02:25 PST, 10:25 GMT - The Database Maintenance is progressing. There are a couple new indexes taking longer [...]

Updated: We believe we’ve figured out the cause of these brief outages and are implementing a permanent fix right now. We’ll be keeping a close eye on the issues, but we’re fairly certain that we’ve worked out the issue.
We’ve encountered a few brief network outages today (lasting 1-5 minutes each). We have [...]

A pretty bad security exploit made it into Wordpress version 2.1.1, so if you upgraded to that within the last couple of days, make sure to upgrade to 2.1.2 as soon as possible. More information is available from the WP staff:
WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, upgrade to 2.1.2
If you are unable to upgrade your install of Wordpress [...]

We are experiencing connection issues with file storage server that’s causing inflated loads on the following machines. This will explain any delay you’re encountering when attempting to view your website. As well as any problems that you are encountering while trying to access your e-mail. Our Admins are currently working to resolve the issue. Again, [...]