Filer reboot.
One of our filers on the spacey cluster was having problems and eventually crashed as our admin team was trying to fix it. This was causing very high loads on several servers in the spacey cluster and errors for customers trying to access their sites and scripts. The filer is back up and running now and we are rebooting the servers it is mounted to. This should take no more than 5-10 minutes after which things will be working properly again. We do apologize for this and are trying to figure out a way to prevent this from continuing to be an issue.
Update: we have rebooted all of the effected servers (a few apaches may take a few minutes longer to start up but we have all of the machines working now).
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May 25th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Well I didn’t notice any problems, but maybe I just got lucky.
May 25th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
These things always happen when you’re just programming and need to test the scripts on the server.
Or is it that I’m always programming and testing….
May 25th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
All my sites are down still - hope this is resolved soon.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Amazing. I already moved all of my production sites off of Dreamhost. All I left behind was my domain parking lots. Nothing but parked domains with adsense. And I can’t even run those here, they are down more often than not. My leftover sites have been down more often than not in the past week.
I guess it’s time to move those now. It’s amazing that http://www.dreamhoststatus.com is always online. Why can’t the customers have the same uptime as this page? Is it hosted somewhere else?
May 25th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
My sites are down too. Hope this is resolved soon. :}
May 25th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
I was back up in less than 30 minutes. Bravo folks!
May 25th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Anyone know how to find out what servers are not on Spacey. I’m itching to move to something a little more reliable, and considering how many outages and problems there have been with space this year (the space of five months), I’d like to get the hell away from the damn server.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
@A - it’s not a server, it’s a cluster (meaning many servers). From what I was told, they will not move you off a cluster, so you’re pretty much stuck with it (as am I).
@Mack - it’s hosted at an offsite location, and no doubt it costs more than what most of us pay for our own hosting. I might suggest you look into the same thing if you need reliability and can afford the extra cost for it
May 25th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Thank god I’m not in spacey, it seems to be the worst cluster to be in
May 26th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Thanks for the info, Mousee. It’s a pity that they won’t move people from it (or do some damn work on it so that it’s at least semi-reliable). This consistent downtime is a pain (as you surely know!).
May 26th, 2007 at 7:58 am
“Thank god I’m not in spacey, it seems to be the worst cluster to be in”
Guess what I’m on :/
June 4th, 2007 at 10:21 am
My website never work for few hours (Maybe from 8 AM up to this point (1:20 PM)….Please restore.