The machine ’stewarts’ looks to have a faulty network card which is causing major instability in the machine. We are going to move stewarts over to new hardware.
This process will take about 30 minutes to an hour. We will post an update here when it has been completed.
Thanks!
The Happy DreamHost Night Owl Team.
Update […]
The MySQL server “stimpy” has experienced a drive failure. We’re working on getting the issue resolved as soon as possible, and this entry will be updated when stimpy is back in action.
As always, if you have any questions about this, please contact support.
Update Tue Jul 31 20:59:11 PDT 2007: As things turn out, stimpy […]
In an effort to continue bringing you, our customers, our amazingly low prices, we’re consolidating some of our racks that are mostly empty, so we can reuse them without buying all new racks!
To do this, we need to move a few servers around. Tonight at around 2am we’ll be moving the following servers:
vito
crusty
destro
ouzo
baseline
zartan
snowdrop
The downtime […]
We have not been able to get hummer to reply back to us, so we’re getting it on brand new shiny hardware. This should take less than an hour to complete. We’re very sorry for the downtime, but we’re going to get it back running very quickly.
Update (6:53PM): The failover process is complete, and the […]
The shared MySQL database server sylvester is breathing its last, and right now an admin is working very quickly to get another machine online to take its place. Expected downtime for sylvester database users is around two hours. We will update this post as sylvester’s replacement progresses and when it is back online. We apologize […]
Unfortunately our primary mail load balancer crashed and rebooted causing mail problems to all the mail servers listed above. Our secondary load balancer took over but needed a manual update to get going. Everything is coming back now and we’ll keep an eye on the load balancer.
To see if you are on these […]
We are having some networking issues with the skittle web server this morning, it is being moved to new hardware so resolved the issue as fast as possible. Service will be restored shortly, check back for updates.
UPDATE
The move is finished, all services restored according to the monitoring system. Sorry for the downtime.
In order to make more efficient use of power in our datacenter, I’ll be moving a few servers tonight between 2 and 3 a.m., PDT. The racks are very close to each other, so downtime per server should be no longer than five minutes each.
The servers being moved tonight:
paramount
holt
fairfax
whopper
joust
I will also be moving the […]
If you are on the spacey cluster you are possibly seeing mail send to you bounce back with a mail loops back error. We are working on this issue right now and the fix is currently running. You can tell if you are in the spacey cluster by logging into the DreamHost web […]
On tuesday, July 17th, 2007, at 10pm, we will be moving the Postal file servers in to join their web server’s in our other datacenter. This will mean a total downtime of all web and email services for the postal cluster. We expect the downtime to take about 1 hour.
Edit: One day we will […]
You are currently browsing the DreamHost Status weblog archives for July, 2007.
