Power Redundancy Implementation
On Wednesday, May 30th at 10 p.m. PST, we will be adding redundant power to several racks used for infrastructure. Each rack has two power strips, both supplied by the same source of power. We will be switching one of those strips in each rack to an alternate source. The end goal is to have vital central machines be supplied by two different sources of power.
We will be switching over a total of 12 racks, one rack at a time. These racks include machines that our web control panel connects to, as well as some of the file servers that customer data is stored on. Since each machine in these racks has redundant power supplies, service should not be interrupted during this switch. Please check this space for updates.
- UPDATE Thu May 31 01:37:21 PDT 2007 -
All planned circuit switches have been completed!
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May 25th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Investing into the future
keep it up
May 25th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
OMG, you’ve been running without that implemented in the first place? My sites have been down and that’s the reason, I’m moving all my sites right now over to some other host that doesn’t give me a status blog to look at so I don’t know what’s going on or when and keeps me in the dark so I don’t know when and what your all are doing, I can’s stand being on Dreamhost, a company that hosts over 500,000 websites which I found out about from the Dreamhost Blog\ which I find funny. I’m searching for another host right now. see me doing it?
Just Kidding. I like it here.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
seems invesments are growing..thats really nice
May 25th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I applaud this upgrade. Hope more redundancy upgrades are in the offing!
May 25th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Thanks Dreamhost! I appreciate this
May 25th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Get better soon.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
In case it’s not obvious, the “seems invesments are growing..thats really nice” comment is spam that needs to be deleted.
Feel free to delete this post with it.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Web Hosting Provider DreamHost Blocks Googlebot on Client Sites
May 19, 2007 (HOSTSEARCH.COM) Web hosting provider DreamHost has blocked Googlebot on some of its customer sites, it was reported in the Search Engine Journal (http://www.searchenginejournal.com) this week. The report suggests the owner of a Romanian website, Zoso.ro, was sent an email by DreamHost suggesting that its high traffic sites must block the Googlebot.
According to the report, the email sent to Zoso.ro read, this email is to inform you that a few of your sites were getting hammered by Google bot. This was causing a heavy load on the webserver, and in turn affecting other customers on your shared server. In order to maintain stability on the webserver, I was forced to block Google bot via the .htaccess file.?br
DreamHost is carbon neutral host that caters for around 500,000 domains. The company offers a range of shared and dedicated hosting options, alongside services such as domain registration. According to the company website DreamHost is owned entirely by its employees.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Yes! Finally, this blog also talks about the status of positive defensive measures against system failures. After suffering through so many downtimes and seeing no announced efforts for prevention, this is a breath of fresh air. Well done, DH!
May 26th, 2007 at 7:27 am
@adrianleung
Do you really think there’s not more to that story than what you wrote there?
That dumbass is crying because he can’t get a dedicated server for $10/month.
You forgot to mention that other hosts would have just completely shut his account down. DH was nice and left it up, but made adjustments until he got it under control.
Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to not understand why it’s called SHARED hosting?
Anyone that passed 2nd grade math should be able to figure out that if one person is bringing a server to its knees, you deal with that ONE person–not make hundreds of other users suffer just because that burger-flipping loser can’t afford a dedicated server.
In that situation, DH could have crippled the site, or one bot. Who here is saying they’d rather have no site online, rather than just pausing one bot until you can get things back where they need to be? Exactly… no one.
If you feel bad for the idiot, then buy him a dedicated server. Seems like a simple solution to me.
May 26th, 2007 at 8:35 am
@ Mike RE: “In case it’s not obvious, the “seems invesments are growing..thats really nice” comment is spam …”
It is not obvious to me …. does that make me dumb?
May 26th, 2007 at 9:37 am
You don’t see how a random irrelevant comment spammed by a bot, to promote a site that isn’t even hosted at Dreamhost, is spam?
Which is the confusing part?
May 26th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Hmm, bots aren’t that clever, they can’t tell context properly yet. Anyway, we’re allowed to post URLs so what’s the problem?
May 26th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
That’s was poorly written irrelevant gibberish. A bot doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to puke that out. And the site isn’t even hosted here. This is DREAMHOSTstatus.com, after all.
I didn’t say anything about posting URLs in general. Yours is hosted here & you actually have a reason to be here. Totally different.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Fantastic, great work DH
May 27th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Thanks DreamHost!
May 29th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Why isn’t this fixed yet?
June 5th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Good going DH.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Thanks for your all your hard work since you first came online and I am happy to be one of the originals and thank God I found you.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:01 am
This brings up something that has always bugged me. Why do DH’s central computers only have two power supplies? I won’t be satisfied until they have nine. Of everything.
June 9th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Now when will DreamHost switch it all to GREEN power? That’s what should be the next big news!
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:13 am
tnx
December 23rd, 2007 at 9:05 am
thanks dreamhost
December 23rd, 2007 at 9:06 am
thanks. very good.