Unavoidable Power Restructuring for 4 half-cabinets
Unfortunately we were informed this week that one of our datacenters is requiring us to switch 4 of our circuits from one power feed to another. This will take place on Tuesday night, June 19, at 11pm PDT. The circuit switchover should take approximately 5-15 minutes from start to finish. This downtime window is for the following list of web servers:
admiralty
aero
alondra
altoid
arrow
aviation
broadway
bubbleyum
butler
cahuenga
cienega
contra
cornelius
gage
garvey
herod
lankershim
larchmont
limbo-randy3
malt
manchester
mel
moorpark
napoleon
nash
rhod
rossmore
rum
rygar
shekel
tetris
toffee
ultima
vanowen
wasabi
There are also six shared MySQL servers which house databases for customers not necessarily affected by the above list of web servers. These are:
bill
figaro
jarvis
madcat
mimsey
nala
We realize this will be inconveniencing quite a few people and you have our apologies, we simply have no choice in the matter.
- UPDATE Tue Jun 19 23:20:59 PDT 2007 -
The power switch is complete and everything is back up and running. If you are having any problems with your service, please contact support.
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June 15th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Power… can’t wait till that is wireless!
June 15th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Wireless power, I still wonder how this will work after it goes live.
June 15th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
lots of download lately because of this ?
June 16th, 2007 at 4:49 am
The idea of wireless power wasting even more electricity, disgusts me.
June 16th, 2007 at 5:36 am
I find that my FTP is too slow….
June 16th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Wireless power would be pretty cool.
June 16th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Prevent this from happening
June 16th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Build your own data centres… NAAOOOHHHHH11111!!!
June 16th, 2007 at 10:41 am
We realize this will be inconveniencing quite a few people and you have our apologies, we simply have no choice in the matter.
So what else is new…after being the biggest Dreamhost honk on the planet for the past couple of years I’ve just about had it. My websites were down for 16 hours or so yesterday. They’re down now. DH needs to advertise 40% uptime, except they probably couldn’t meet that lofty goal.
June 16th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Does little Jimmy feel better now that he’s cried?
Good luck finding a maintenance-free data center.
The lower you pretend to believe their uptime really is, the dumber you look for staying and whining about it.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
You do realize, Jim, that uptime percentage is determined by the average uptime over ALL of their servers, right?
June 16th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
99.84% Uptime for all my dreamhost sites I am happy.
My max downtime for any site has been an hour, but they announced the reason why before hand.
June 16th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Wireless power isn’t a new idea. Tesla was a pretty bright bulb.
June 16th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
No it’s very old but is finally able to go mainstream
June 17th, 2007 at 2:23 am
Well, it’s not ready to go mainstream yet. They were just able to power a bulb wirelessly in the lab. A lab is not mainstream. This discussion is really getting off-topic.
June 17th, 2007 at 10:12 am
I am very surprised there are not 300 posts by now with complaints, etc. Good job everyone!
June 17th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Actually, Tesla was lighting bulbs in the late 1800’s. So lighting one today doesn’t seem like much progress.
Tesla’s problem was that he wanted to make that power available to anyone anywhere and the guys that had the power didn’t want him to succeed. Beyond that, the problem was obviously harder and more complex than Tesla thought otherwise he’d have succeeded anyway.
I agree we are TOTALLY off topic but you have to admit that it’s more entertaining than “My site’s been down since the day I signed up”
June 17th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Now let’s mix the two together then.
So let’s say Dreamhost uses this wireless power in their datacenters. Would this use more or less power, and seems a little dangerous since it wireless power. But if it keeps the physical servers cooler, and uses less energy then our websites will be faster, and stabler.
June 17th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Wireless Power ?? Get shocked in the air ?? :p
June 18th, 2007 at 5:29 am
I’ve just monitored my site last week and it’s great!
http://tintucvienthong.com
Total uptime:99.97% Downtime:1 min(s) 49 sec(s)
Weekly uptime:99.97% Downtime:1 min(s) 49 sec(s)
Day 2007-06-17 Uptime:100.00%
Day 2007-06-16 Uptime:100.00%
Day 2007-06-15 Uptime:100.00%
Day 2007-06-14 Uptime:100.00%
Day 2007-06-13 Uptime:99.74% Downtime:1 min(s) 49 sec(s)
June 18th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Does this have anything to do with my Announcement Lists being delayed?
June 18th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
cant they just hook up a gas powered generator during the downtime?
June 18th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
is problen no access mysql admin for my site ???
June 18th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
My database and phpbb are down. What’s up?!?!
June 18th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
I’ve been using SSL for email using mail.mydomainname.com port 995 for receiving mail and it’s been working fine (other than the certificate warning). Just tried changing to suggested format and it does not work - invalid password.. confused. For outgoing I’m using my ISP’s SMTP - I previously used ‘mail.mydomainname.com’ for outgoing until I found my IP ended up on one of the spam sites as a result, and now others’ filters have been blocking my mail as a result, for which I am severely fucked off.