DreamHost Status

At Wed May 23 22:00:00 PDT 2007 we will be taking the DreamHost webpanel offline for some maintenance. The downtime window extends for one hour, til 23:00:00 PDT. Expected downtime within this window is 30 minutes.

We are currently dealing with network issues that are causing some downtime for some of our servers. The problem involves the private network between web/mail servers with their file servers. This appears to be affecting all clusters on some level. We are fixing everything now so some issues have cleared up and […]

We had some problems with a backend service that caused SMTP service to go down. Total downtime was around 30 minutes. SMTP service should be completely restored now. We are working on ways to balance the service that failed so that we can avoid downtimes like this in the future.
Note: if […]

We are currently experiencing some networking issues that may affect access to Dreamhost servers. The problem is being looked into at this time and we will post with updated information as soon as it becomes available.
UPDATE —
The problems with network have been solved. They problem turned out to be a large amount of dns traffic […]

We had some problems with SMTP a while ago and the issue is now resolved. Sorry about the service downtime. One of the drives on the database server used for SMTP authentication caused the problems noticed today. We have fixed the issue and are taking steps to make sure this does not […]

We are experiencing problems with one of our network filerservers. This is causing inflated loads on machines in the spunky cluster. As a result, you may experience connection issues when attempting to access your site, email, etc. Our Admins are diligently working towards resolving this matter. Below is a list of the affected machines. Please […]

Machine should be backup within a hour ( worse-case scenario ). Sorry the inconvenience this has caused. Please check back for future updates.

This was erroneously not previously mentioned. A number of critical security holes have been closed for both php 4 and php 5 and we are in the process of upgrading them on all of our servers, starting May 7, 2007. We have heard reports of a few problems with specific applications such as […]

This is a pretty hefty feature upgrade which you can read more about here:
Wordpress 2.2 Changelog
As always, you can upgrade your current one-click install of Wordpress by logging in here:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=goodies.installer&
And then clicking on the “Upgrade to 2.2″ link to the right of your existing Wordpress install. If you have any problems with this upgrade breaking […]

It’s that time again! Right now I’m compiling a new version of Ruby on Rails for our servers. I will be testing and slowly rolling these out this week and next week. The upgrade should be completed by the end of next week at the latest. I will be carefully testing the upgrade to be […]