Homer’s Gone D’oh
Just a heads up for everyone that is currently on homer. A member of our admin team is in the process of failing your server over to new hardware due to some issues with the system. This shouldn’t take very long for the admin in charge to fail the system over — and they’re working as fast as they can — but please be aware that your email should not be affected during this transition. I’ll be sure to post an update here when things are back up and running.
I’m mighty sorry about this, everybody.
Update: The server should be back up and running now! If any of you happen to see any issues on homer, please file a ticket in the web control panel and let us know what you’re seeing.
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April 18th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
i am also mighty sorry
April 18th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
“Shouldn’t take very long” — Does that mean 5 mins, 3 hours, a couple of days?
Giving a rough estimate would make the wait less irritating, more information the better when something goes titsup.
April 18th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
hopefully, things will be back to normal soon.thanks.
April 18th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Oh awesome! I’ve noticed it going up and down all day. I’m glad it is getting fixed now!
April 18th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
ur dreamhost still sucks. i have hard time pulling my blog up.
r-
April 18th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
redbull seems to be d.o.a.
April 18th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Even Mountaindew is down and doesn’t respond to ping.
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April 18th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
hey.. 7up is dead..
April 18th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
pepsi is dead
April 18th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
So is RidorLIVE.com.
R-
April 18th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
my site is sick..
April 18th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
A lot of the “beverage” machines are getting about 90% packet loss. I’m thinking a router went poof.
April 18th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
lol.. looks like the beverage runs dry…
April 18th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
they robot everyday, they are stupid .
April 18th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
they have many stupid worker and the leader.
April 18th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Grrr my BRAND NEW directory which I just sent a promotion about is now useless as the database is down. Hmph.
April 18th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
how long is this going to be down? I get a
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@djcham.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
April 18th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Dudes, if you look at the front page they already reported an issue with the drinks servers. (and surprisingly it’s a router issue). It’s hard to see your diagnosis as brilliant when even DH had it pinned a long while ago.
Now, if you want to ridicule them, ask them why it’s not fixed days later after they identified the issue. That’s the weird bit.
April 18th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Jon - it’s likely there’s a configuration issue that you need to bring up with DH support. Not a single one of us will EVER be able to fix it here. We’re all just customers like you. This is the kind of issue that is seen sometimes when something happens to a server’s configuration. You might be able to diagnose it with your logs, but since you just cut and pasted the whole message here, I assume that you aren’t comfortable looking through your logs.
Just ask DH, they’ll ID the issue and either fix it for you or tell you how to fix it. I don’t remember this issue being one that is usually solved by “waiting”.
April 18th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Wow, you guys need to read. This does not say redbull, this does not say mountiandew.
If you server is not Homer, then why post, you could be saving your words for a SERVICE TICKET!!!!!
I am sick and tired of all the complaining people do that their server or email is down and it is not even related to the reported problem. If it is related, Im sorry your service is down, but you pay for shared hosting, If you MUST have 99.99% uptime, then get a dedicated server (although I cannot recommend DH for this, their prices are too high). If it is not related, then why are you complaining here thinking it will fix something. It will not, however, a service ticket might.
Finally, after my venting is done, let me help you understand infrastructures of data centers, as I manage the security in one, and the complete infrastructure in another.
1. Web server serve web pages, they have nothing to deal with email or database problems.
2. Database servers do not have anything to do with static html pages, or email
3. Email Server/File Clusters can and will affect email and possibly web sites
4. Central Database will not and will never affect your websites, however will affect email
5. Network problems can affect every one of the above
I will check back on this, I will be happy to enlighten anyone else who has questions about why things should or should not be related.
Also, this is not an attack at anyone (although I am certain some people will see it as that) it is an aggregate response the the ridiculous posts that have been on this blog since I joined over a year ago.
Tom
April 18th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Tom-
What is a server?
April 18th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
SHOULDN’T TAKE THIS LONG……………
EVERYONE CAN’T DO ANYTHING, AS YOU GUYS KNOW. -.-;
I AM BUILDING MY FRIEND’S WEBSITE, AND, THE BUSINESS WILL BE OPENING ON SATURDAY……….
NOW, EVERYONE BLAME TO ME, NOW……
IS THE REFUND AVAILABLE, since i joined dreamhost at March 22 ??????
April 18th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
hi,my site is not stable at those days.Often it could not visited from China,even now.Pls solve those problems ,thanks.My site is http://www.5ifei.com
April 18th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Not again. I can’t even access Ridorlive.com — what’s wrong with you folks?
I’m sick of DreamHost messing one after the other!
R-
April 18th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
I’m on nesbitt and my site is down right now…it’s already 20 minutes…what’s up?
April 18th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Site dowm AGAIN! AGAIN! AGAIN! AGAIN!….
April 19th, 2007 at 12:56 am
What’s happening to ROCKSTAR?
April 19th, 2007 at 2:48 am
It’s very very very slow to visit my site (http://www.5ifei.com/) from China and often down on those days.What’s happend ?
Pls solve those questions at soon.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:10 am
@tom, hey, I’ve a shared host at digitalus and pcextreme and they NEVER were down. Ok, they cost like 20 times more expensiver, however. If you buy a host, you want uptime. How cheap it may be, they are suppose to get your site up as long as you paid for it. It makes it understandable why it’s down (cheap, a lot of features/ services), but people are still allowed to complain. In fact, dreamhost become better if you do. They see the meet the problem, they fixes and in the further they become the perfect host. At least I hope.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:58 am
Ahhhh … Down again and again …
April 19th, 2007 at 5:54 am
I can’t get to my site and I am on carrera. Is carrera affected as well?
My site: http://www.arkachicago.com
April 19th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Is everything alright now?
April 20th, 2007 at 1:30 am
Do not tolerate shittiness
April 21st, 2007 at 7:39 am
@Tom
Flash-monkeys should never cast stones. If you were at least a talented flash-monkey than maybe I would let your apologist-ass slide….but, you are not
[Wow, you guys need to read. This does not say redbull, this does not say mountiandew.
If you server is not Homer, then why post, you could be saving your words for a SERVICE TICKET!!!!!]
Genius, with some certainty, these folks probably have already filed a ’service ticket’ and are probably simply at their wits end trying to gain secretive contact in any way shape or form possible to help expedite their issue.
[I am sick and tired of all the complaining people do that their server or email is down and it is not even related to the reported problem. If it is related, Im sorry your service is down, but you pay for shared hosting, If you MUST have 99.99% uptime, then get a dedicated server (although I cannot recommend DH for this, their prices are too high). If it is not related, then why are you complaining here thinking it will fix something. It will not, however, a service ticket might.]
If you are soo sick and tired, go away! Btw, I am not sure Mr. Schaer would be tickled knowing that you are using his website as a backdrop to ‘flaming’ people in here trying to vent. They have just as much right to vent as you do, Mr. Apologist.
[Finally, after my venting is done, let me help you understand infrastructures of data centers, as I manage the security in one, and the complete infrastructure in another.]
Good god :O….poor clients….poor poor clients
Please tell me that you are kidding? If you are not, as someone involved in the ‘reverse engineering security field’ myself, I would strongly caution your words and especially your linking strategies. There are wolves amongst us :p
[1. Web server serve web pages, they have nothing to deal with email or database problems.]
Untrue….depends on the configurations of those webservers…..even some enterprise scale companies do so to save money (not recommended though)
[2. Database servers do not have anything to do with static html pages, or email]
This is true, although, I fail to understand even a rudementary correlation here…
[3. Email Server/File Clusters can and will affect email and possibly web sites]
Backtracking already princess
see #1
[4. Central Database will not and will never affect your websites, however will affect email]
ERRR! WRONG! that would be a big gong, tom….ever here of something called .asp or .php? Hell, even .cfm sometimes is dynamically database driven.
[5. Network problems can affect every one of the above]
True.
[I will check back on this, I will be happy to enlighten anyone else who has questions about why things should or should not be related.]
‘Enlightening’ is not your bag, thomas, stick to security ….. LOL
[Also, this is not an attack at anyone (although I am certain some people will see it as that) it is an aggregate response the the ridiculous posts that have been on this blog since I joined over a year ago.]
We thank you for your ‘aggregate response’, however, we retort by sticking to our guns by simply re-stating that ‘flash-monkeys’ should never cast stones.