Brief network downtime around 3:30PM PDT
Updated: There was a little delay getting started, but after everything was ready, the switchover went very well. With the exception of a completely separate (and thankfully smaller) outage caused by a loose network cable, the planned work was completed with just a few seconds of downtime.
At approximately 3:30PM PDT this afternoon, we’ll be taking a small portion of our network offline so we can fix some packet loss issues that our provider has been unable to rectify. Everything will be pre-configured, so downtime should be less than 30 seconds.
Happy DreamHost Network Team!
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April 23rd, 2007 at 2:04 pm
30 seconds, cool
April 23rd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Keep up the good work
April 23rd, 2007 at 2:45 pm
I imagine this little downtime is why i am getting webmail error:
“ERROR:
ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
Query: FETCH 1:* (FLAGS UID RFC822.SIZE INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date To Cc From Subject X-Priority Importance Priority Content-Type)])
??
tis all good….means I get to take a break.
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:32 pm
I hope this is the cause of the 100+ response time when I ping my domain. I just got setup my dreamhost account friday hoping for better performance then my current host. We will see
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:10 pm
OMG!
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
would this explain my db being down?
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Er…. anybody else have broken MySQL right now?
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:14 pm
I do, broken SQL.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I don’t think this is related…my sql look like they broke at 4:11 or so
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:15 pm
My site is slower than a 7 year itch
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:18 pm
joyful is down for me. My forums won’t work - it’s been doing this on and off for the past couple of weeks, so I doubt it’s a new problem.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:19 pm
I am running real slow also
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:22 pm
drooper seems to be down as well, affecting sql on several of my sites
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:22 pm
hey.. my 7up down..
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm
I get MYSQL errors on all of my wordpress websites. Hopefully this is fixed soon.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm
I’m down, too.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm
my wordpress instance isn’t working.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Grrr! I feel like Calvin when “Scientific Progress Goes Boink!”
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Yup SQL problems here too, can’t connect to databases on the “elmyra:jazmine” MySQL Server
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:28 pm
yeah, mysql is down for me too (the night a db project is due no less)
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:30 pm
MYSQL NOT WORKING!
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Same here…..mysql is toast. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!
So much for brief downtime I guess.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
SQL working again, woo. WTF happened?
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:32 pm
yay! Working?
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:33 pm
ok, I’m back up. hoo ray. this needs to at least slow down…all this down time…it’s been about 2x a week lately in my view
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
My site is back up, Now I can go back to beta testing heh.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Seems like every week they are having some kind of problem.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Yay back up! This is the first SQL downtime I’ve experienced, best of luck to anyone still having troubles.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
drooper seems to be back up too. *whew*
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:55 pm
okay, I’m back online now…
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
No messages appearing my IMAP outbox!!!!!
They are getting through but not showing up.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:27 pm
My web is still down.
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:59 pm
OMG MYSQL is down (but i can ping our URL grrrrrrrr… )
April 24th, 2007 at 12:51 am
I have mail trouble, on many of my accouts mail messages disappeared
April 24th, 2007 at 1:00 am
My site is down, and has been for the past three hours.
April 24th, 2007 at 3:53 am
My site is STILL down, and HAS been for hours now. Please fix this!
April 24th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Guys!
At least you guys can pour out your frustration here. Other hosts like Bluehost, etc there is no place to vent our disappointment. I think DH is open and at least we know what’s going on… So, keep shouting.. lolz
April 24th, 2007 at 4:54 am
Bei: At least your site is up and running. Mine has been down all morning!!!!!
April 24th, 2007 at 5:03 am
I don’t know if it is related to this, but I can’t seem to access the Rodeo server, HTTP, SSH, FTP, nothing works.
April 24th, 2007 at 5:09 am
rodeo doesn’t work for me either..
April 24th, 2007 at 5:24 am
Rodeo is back.
April 24th, 2007 at 7:13 am
No trouble with pez or henderson on my end…
April 24th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Looks like khan rebooted
April 24th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Mail is down.
April 24th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
is it down again today???? my site isn’t coming up
April 24th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Email is down!! 5:00pm Central TIme
April 24th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Well, my email is “down” in a real funny way. I noticed my POP checker wasn’t able to check, so I tried going to webmail - it said my username is unknown or password incorrect.
It said that several times. With several different accounts.
Funny thing is that 1) the dreamhost panel lists those accounts as active and with the password I tried, and 2) I can log onto mailboxes.domain.com with the account password just fine. Only thing blocked is POP (dunno about SMTP).
April 24th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Ooop! And just after I posted that my POP was pooped my POP checker started popping like jiffy!
Appears to have been a prolonged reboot, or “where does this cable go” moments or something.
LOL! Dreamhost still rocks!
April 24th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Guys… You’re complaining about an outtage thats been well planned…. Have you even placed a ticket on your problems? Just putting it into the panel for an outtage check doesn’t count. Did you file a ticket with enough information to actually get the thing fixed?
Dreamhost is the expert on running their network and their servers - not running your applications. So give them the info they need to help you out…
And if you don’t want to give them a chance - Why not start giving RackSpace $1900 a month for a server… And you too with get FANATICAL support… Only you’ll be BROKE!
Thanks for taking such great care of us, DreamHost! I’ve been with bad hosts and it’s dreamhost who always gets things done!
April 24th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
our site is down, again.
the longer it’s down, the more i smoke.
i dont wanna die from cancer.
make it online
April 25th, 2007 at 9:35 am
My sites are working fine.
April 25th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I can recieve email but not send it. My outlook outbox has a glut of email it in. Could this be caused by the outage. Everything used to work fine.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Wordpress blog is still not working. Wasn’t working yesterday either. Anyone else? My site is fine but can’t get to my blog.
DJ Rob
April 25th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Port 587 instead of 25 fixed things. Not sure if this is due to my ISP or not?
April 26th, 2007 at 1:53 am
My website is STILL down! FIX IT!
April 26th, 2007 at 6:07 am
@Mike - your website works fine for me as of 9AM (GMT -06).