Power redundancy and brief panel downtime

Our previously-mentioned power infrastruture changes will begin within the next 30 minutes, at it’s previously scheduled time.

In preparation for these changes, the DreamHost Webpanel will be taken offline briefly. Expected downtime is about 10 minutes and will begin at 9:45PM.

Update Wed May 30 22:41:52 PDT 2007: Panel is good to go. Power maintenance continues.

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40 Responses to “Power redundancy and brief panel downtime”

  1. 1
    Matthew Taylor Says:

    Wow! I am SO happy with the quality of your service - when you’re down, you TELL me you’re down. i was just trying to log in and get some stuff working - and now I know why I can’t do it.

    Peace,
    Matthew

  2. 2
    cho0b Says:

    2get.

  3. 3
    Eric Dunn Says:

    Very impressed with quick report. Thought would be guessing

  4. 4
    Bill Says:

    Nothing says “fuck you” like taking down a server when one of your customers is in the middle of backing up a database so he can move to a new hosting company. And here I thought I had seen the end of Dreamhost’s incredible ability to make their servers go down!

  5. 5
    Jupiter Says:

    Site down

  6. 6
    snewp Says:

    This was reported a while back, so stop whining.

    oh yeah, I see you’re leaving, thanks!

  7. 7
    Koen Werdler Says:

    hey Bill,

    Why don’t you just GET THE FUCK OUT?
    No point in whining here while you are already running off to a more worse hosting company.

  8. 8
    Lior Says:

    My site is down, probably something with the internal rails support of the server. can anyone tell me when is that suppose to be operational again?

    Many thanks
    Lior

  9. 9
    why Says:

    Bill - This was scheduled a while ago and although you scheduled your work to occur at the same time, I see it as YOUR problem with scheduling, not DH.

    Jupiter - Thanks for letting us know that your site was down. It’s a shame that you didn’t have the decency to notify everyone that it was back up. It’s not as though reporting that your site unavailable here does anything more than make you feel better. “This is not a way to contact DreamHost” appears right at the top of the reply entry. Thus I can only assume the posting is for catharsis (look it up) or to inform your users that your site is unavailable. I guess giving your users the url to dreamhoststatus isn’t a BAD way of letting them know that you might not be available, it still might be appropriate to post when you’re back up.

    Lior - No. We’re not support.

    It’s not Friday yet, is it? I appear to be in a “mood”.

  10. 10
    Arto Bendiken Says:

    The server “pringle”, on the “spunky” cluster, appears to be experiencing problems, coincidentally or not with this maintenance work. The Apache error log is showing “Premature end of script headers: /dh/cgi-system/php5.cgi” for all sites that were working fine yesterday.

  11. 11
    jgroh Says:

    I’m unable to loginto to the panel. Is it still down?

  12. 12
    Emz Says:

    Just to verify for anyone having problems - I’ve successfully logged into the panel with no problems whatsoever i.e. fully functional.

    So for anyone that is having problems, it’s going to be something your end, not Dreamhost’s.

  13. 13
    malaysia travel guide Says:

    yap, not a problem with mine too. just checked in.

  14. 14
    Angry Dog Says:

    @ Bill : you cock - yeah right, DH have been just sitting and waiting for you to back up your database so they could take the server down right at that moment. Idiot. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out will ya..
    GRRR WOOF!

  15. 15
    roy kamen Says:

    all my sites are down as well as FTP

  16. 16
    Mousee Says:

    @Roy - working fine here.

  17. 17
    Jon Says:

    Working fine here too.

  18. 18
    Mike Says:

    Bill, instead of just leaving Dreamhost, why don’t you kill yourself instead? If you’re too stupid to get the idea of planned maintenance, you’re too stupid to breathe.

  19. 19
    dammit Says:

    They say, if whatever you’re going to say is not any better than silence then just shut up

  20. 20
    Bullseye Says:

    seems that there are more and more children on this forum every day…

    “Angry Dog”

  21. 21
    Bob Says:

    All my sites are fine, haven’t seen downtime for ages! Thanks DH! :D

    All those whose servers are down… check your own network before moaning, check you’ve typed the address correctly too, you never know… if you’re stupid enough to moan here and think it’s going to help you need to double check these things!

    Enjoy your new hosting ‘Bill’ I hope you have lots of problems ;)

  22. 22
    Craig Hamnett Says:

    Bob your sites down……

    NOTTTTT! ha ha, reminds me of Borat :D

  23. 23
    Pancho Says:

    The system is down, now, 1/6/2007 at Current Time Is 21:45:32 PDT. :(

  24. 24
    korbo Says:

    I was just blogging some news, then, without any notice, the db goes “kaboom”. No prior notice but after only 3 months, I know I shall not stay once my 2 years are finished… unless some breakthrough make DH stands for “Decent Host” because I’m sick of their dreams: I want results.

  25. 25
    Mike Says:

    I was just blogging some news

    Blah blah blah… regurgitating news like millions of other bloggers isn’t exactly mission critical.

    Quit being a cheapskate whiner and pay for redundancy if you really think anything you have to say is worth more than $9.95/month.

  26. 26
    Abbas Khan Says:

    @ Mike
    ———————
    No one that whines here has a site that’s worth over $9.95/month. Crying doesn’t keep a site online. Paying for redundancy does.
    ——–

    For you information, Mike, let me tell you,
    IX Webhosting is providing, 500 Gb, with 2.5Tb bw in just 95$ / year and ,
    their uptime is also 99.99 percent….

    Ok,
    so, dont blame your luck, and donot try to give over-favored stupid DH comments !!!

  27. 27
    korbo Says:

    @Mike: paying for some unadvertised hickups is just unacceptable.
    ..And you do *not* judge others’ value, for that makes you an obvious prick.

  28. 28
    Abbas Khan Says:

    @ korbo,

    you are absolutely right…!!!

  29. 29
    Mousee Says:

    @korbo - uhhhh, find any other host that advertises and let us all know! Cause quite frankly I’m unaware of… any!

    @Abbas - wtf does IX Webhosting have to do with what Mike’s comment that you quoted? It seems rather obvious it’s just spam… but then again I dunno. My DH account has 99.99% uptime, and that’s not even after a year of service. So I’m not sure how IX is any better…

  30. 30
    JDizzle Says:

    I am using Firefox as my browser and this is what I get when I try to go to the panel:

    The page isn’t redirecting properly

    Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

    * This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
    cookies.

    And yes, cookies are enabled.

  31. 31
    Craig Hamnett Says:

    What page are you trying to access? It should be:
    https://panel.dreamhost.com

    Failing that try IE7, it’s actually pretty neat. I use FF though with no problems.

  32. 32
    JDizzle Says:

    Yep, IE worked. I guess I just didn’t try IE because FF has always worked before. Even though I am behind a corporate firewall.

    OK, now I can get there but I can’t login.

  33. 33
    Angry Dog Says:

    @ Bullseye : who pressed your button?

  34. 34
    Mike Says:

    @Mike: paying for some unadvertised hickups is just unacceptable.
    ..And you do *not* judge others’ value, for that makes you an obvious prick.

    Yeah, look at all those hosts that advertise failures before they happen!

    Reminds me of those people that only wear seat belts on days where they know there will be an accident.

    I did learn something from your post, though. I learned that being called a prick doesn’t have much sting to it when it’s coming from an illiterate retard. Thanks for teaching me that! :-)

  35. 35
    Abbas Khan Says:

    @ Mike

    Goto Hell.com,
    and i donot have much time to waste on you and your idiotic behaviour,

    and main part of the thing is,
    you are a mental abnormal person, and you are a SELFISH….

    Thanks for your time…!!

  36. 36
    Mike Says:

    Like I said, illiteracy really takes the sting out of insults.

    If you didn’t have time to waste, that post wouldn’t have happened.

  37. 37
    Abbas Khan Says:

    If you think,
    you are too much literate and PhD, then, you must have nt said, all of people “idiots”
    and,
    i think you are PhD of “stupidism”…

    so, goto hell….

  38. 38
    James Says:

    i think you are PhD of “stupidism”…

    And *there’s* a class act of brilliance. Please, if you’re going to insult someone, try and do it in a way that doesn’t make *you* look stupid.

  39. 39
    Mike Says:

    Abbas: If you can’t even figure out what you’re trying to say, how can you expect anyone else to understand that gibberish?

    Either learn how to speak English before trying to insult people with it, or type it out in your native language, then run it through an online Retard-to-English translator.

    Didn’t you say that you didn’t have any time to waste? I’d say that randomly hitting keys on your keyboard, hoping that it will form words & sentences… might just be a waste of time.

  40. 40
    Abbas Says:

    Mike:

    Hahahahah,

    Bark, bark, bark,

    my little doggy……

    :)

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