Archive for April, 2007

Homer’s Gone D’oh

Posted 1 year ago (April 18th, 2007 at 3:59 pm PST)

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 […]

Slowness and downtime on spacey

Posted 1 year ago (April 17th, 2007 at 10:15 am PST)

One of our file servers is getting rebooted due to IO and mount errors. Those errors may have caused (or are still causing) slowness or downtime if your domains/email is on the spacey servers. No data was affected. You can verify if this affected you by checking your Account Status (Your Email Server) on the […]

Partial network slowness

Posted 1 year ago (April 17th, 2007 at 10:06 am PST)

The main distribution switch for one of our facilities is experiencing high CPU utilization which is causing a small amount of packet loss. Only a small subset of our users are currently affected and we’re working on determining the exact cause of the problem. We’ll post an update as we get more information.

Central DB Issues - Panel Down

Posted 1 year ago (April 14th, 2007 at 12:43 pm PST)

One of our central database servers decided to take a nap, and it’s causing the panel to malfunction. Our admins are taking a look at this right now and we will have a status update for you shortly.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Update: The server blew a drive and caused the machine to freak […]

Possible outage tomorrow morning for a few servers

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago (April 13th, 2007 at 7:45 pm PST)

We just got word from one of our datacenter providers that our LAX datacenter will be going to generator power tomorrow morning (Saturday April 14th) around 7:30am for a few minutes. There is no planned outage, just a very, very small chance of one for most of our dedicated servers, and shared servers who’s […]

File server troubles

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago (April 13th, 2007 at 7:39 pm PST)

A few servers are having trouble mounting one of the file servers they use. A quick list is amp, orangebang, ovaltine, tea, coffee, monster. We’re working to fix this right now, so if you’re on a server who’s name is drink themed please hold on.

File server hardware swap

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago (April 12th, 2007 at 1:13 pm PST)

One of our file servers for the spunky and randy clusters is experiencing watchdog timeouts. This means every couple of hours it is simply freezing up and rebooting itself! As you can imagine, thats not good, so we are performing an emergency hardware swap before the problem gets any worse. Your data, if on this […]

Power strip maintenance - Date moved!

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago (April 9th, 2007 at 3:35 pm PST)

On Saturday we experienced the failure of a power strip:
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/04/07/downtime-for-several-servers/
Or so we thought! Turns out, that specific circuit has an open neutral. On Friday, April 13th Thursday, April 12th, at 9pm, we are going to be performing quick maintenance to fix this problem. Luckly, we likely will not have to turn off any servers to […]

Network Hiccup

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago (April 9th, 2007 at 11:00 am PST)

Our core router’s CPU spiked a few minutes ago causing systemwide network inaccessibility and slowness for approximately 10 minutes.
Everything seems to be back to normal and we’re investigating the cause of the spike.

Major DNS DOS attack

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago (April 8th, 2007 at 1:29 am PST)

We are currently experiencing intermittent DNS outages on all of our nameservers, this is causing problems with sites and email functioning properly.
We think it might be the DNS load balancers we’ve recently installed but haven’t determined that for sure yet. More information will be posted as we have it.
Our apologies for the inconvenience this causes.
UPDATE […]