Looney Server Move!
Due to space and power constraints in our primary datacenter we are moving the entire shared cluster “looney” to our LAX facility at 12:01AM PDT, Sunday morning, May 13th 2007. All webservers, mail servers, file servers, and MySQL servers in the looney cluster will be unreachable during the move, which we expect to take approximately 5 hours.
The looney cluster contains the following web servers: apok axl blanka brazil charm curly dhalsim egon guile limbo-looney moe slappy soy tank tofu vega winston
If your site is on any of these servers this status post applies to you. Also, if you check the “Account Status” button on the upper right hand of the webpanel ( http://panel.dreamhost.com ) you should see your cluster under the section “Your Email Server:”.
We do apologize for this inconvenience. Rest assured we will do everything possible to keep downtime to a minimum.
If you have any questions regarding the server move, please contact our support team.
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April 30th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
I’m definately feeling the lag, get’r done guys!
April 30th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
My sites are not on the servers of the list, but they are down now
May 1st, 2007 at 2:26 am
I’ve just tested your site and it seems to be working fine here.
May 1st, 2007 at 2:54 am
Looks like something has gone wrong with the beverage cluster as well.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:14 am
Again down!
Encore offline sa commence à bien faire maintenant!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:26 am
my site is down too and im not in those servers..
May 1st, 2007 at 3:43 am
What’s next, the whackey cluster, followed by the ditzy cluster, the PTS cluster, and then the great cluster f….? Whoa, sorry. Need my morning Pepsi….
May 1st, 2007 at 3:50 am
yeah I am on spacey too and one of my domains just gives me 500 errors. The other gives an Unable to Connect error message.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:52 am
My sites are also not the spacey and they down with 500 error too
May 1st, 2007 at 3:54 am
My web-sites are on sapcey cluster, and they are all down.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:56 am
this is what i get in the error logs : “Resource temporarily unavailable: couldn’t spawn child process: /dh/cgi-system/php5.cgi”
Only php for the spacey cluster seem to be down.
Sites with static content seem to be fine.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:07 am
Pratham: Yes you right, static pages works fine, But PHP pages fails to load…
May 1st, 2007 at 7:38 am
Hm. To me the word “cluster” means load-balancing and high(er) availability.
If you have a cluster, and if the cluster does share load, couldn’t you turn off and move half of the servers at a time, therefore preserving uptime (but with half the capacity) for the time it takes to get the moved servers back up and running? Then turn off & move the original set in the old location after the first half are again operational?
I dunno, don’t know what you’ve got set up, and cluster means lots of things to lots of people. Still, turning off and moving a whole set of what I have to imagine are redundant servers at the same time & therefore incurring a whole schwack of downtime just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me…
May 1st, 2007 at 9:36 am
Ohhh well I knew my tiny part of the world was to going to get interrupted sooner or later-
When this happens what will my vistors see?
Wouldn’t it be great if dream(g)host would mirror a “domain maintenance” page for all us affected?
2c
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:42 am
What you don’t understand is that DH isn’t smart enough to figure out stuff like that. Just like how they aren’t smart enough to mirror the cluster onto another cluster in LA, then minimize downtime with the final file sync. This isn’t hard stuff and real sysadmins know how to do this.
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
where the hell do you get these names from? lol
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
May 2, 2007 6:43pm My site is down, my outgoing email doesnt work, never has here at dreamhost. Never had a problem at any other place with out going email on outlook. But I am more concerned with my site being down alot.
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May 2nd, 2007 at 2:46 pm
@Pam
To clarify, I meant cluster as a logical grouping of MySQL, Web, Mail, and file servers. It’s not necessarily the most accepted use of the word but it’s the vernacular around here. I apologize for any confusion the term causes.
@re eh|o
Actually the issue is that we’re very nearly out of space in our primary datacenter (as the post said) so just mirroring the data and servers wouldn’t solve the issue. We could indeed take that route if we had the time to copy all the data, but a final rsync on 8TB would likely take longer than our scheduled move.
Working with the building in which our primary datacenter installation resides has become increasingly difficult. The power constraints keep getting more and more, well, constrictive. Thus, we’ve decided to start migrating small independent portions of our footprint there.
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:05 am
Hi
Whats goin on with the MySQL Server, its creating problem for me
and many of my dunamic scripts aren’t running fine…. ??
I am unable to perform any operation using root user ????????
when it will be up ?
regards,
Siddiqui
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:56 am
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May 5th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
@micah
well zip-ity doo dahhhh
how abouts you’s smarty pants west coast folks take e a snappy sy shot of starbuckos and forget about telling us poor suckers whats about tt to take paplace ‘eh? –surfs up snapper heads
snapper heads
I like it
snapper yapper do Josh o yeah more dream(gg)host! yeah
May 11th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Now… when you guys make a “move,” does this involve several people bringing their parent’s minivans and such and unplugging all the cables and putting them into boxes and carrying them out the door by hand or do you guys have something more sophisticated than that?