Archive for September, 2007

Moving atlantic onto new hardware

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago (September 29th, 2007 at 8:28 pm PST)

The webserver atlantic has been suffering from poor stability lately, so I’m going to be moving it onto new hardware. This process should take less than thirty minutes, and I’ll post when I’ve finished.
Update 9:37pm. Atlantic is now on new hardware and appears to be running fine. If you have a site […]

geyser not spouting

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago (September 28th, 2007 at 1:31 pm PST)

Geyser has experienced a failure. It is not booting, so we have to switch everyone over to new hardware. This will take no longer than an hour to get everyone back up and running.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Geyser is back up and running and I even found the source of the crash, which has been […]

One-Click Installs: Wordpress updated to 2.3

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago (September 27th, 2007 at 4:18 pm PST)

Wordpress 2.3 adds quite a few new features, which you can read more about on the release page:
Wordpress 2.3 Release Info
A few important notes before you upgrade:
-Please check your plugins and themes for compatibility before the upgrade. You can do so at the links below:
Wordpress 2.3 Plugin Compatibility List
Wordpress 2.3 Theme Compatibility List
-The new version […]

Janky file server slowness

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago (September 27th, 2007 at 9:50 am PST)

We’re currently experiencing problems with one file server that some home directories are mounted under. We’ve got the system administrators working on the problem now and the speeds will be improving throughout the day as work is done on the file server. Some effects caused by the file server are slow webpage loading, […]

Server titan getting new hardware

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago (September 27th, 2007 at 4:28 am PST)

The server titan has suffered a boot drive failure, and will not boot. We are moving it over to new hardware right now, a process which will take approximately 30 minutes.
We will post an update here when it is finished.
Update: 4:55am pacific: the hardware change has been completed. services will be coming up […]

Network Problems

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago (September 26th, 2007 at 8:50 am PST)

We are experiencing intermittent network problems. This will explain any lag / downtime that you may encounter while attempting to access your email, website, etc. Our Admins are diligently working towards resolving issue. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused and truly appreciate your continued patience. Please check back here for future […]

More graveyard server moves!

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago (September 25th, 2007 at 10:03 pm PST)

The following mysql servers will be moved starting at 1am pacific this evening.
bast
heathcliff
juno
guinness
supercat
Each machine will be down for about 15 minutes. We will update this post when the moves are started, and again when they are completed.
Update: 1:25am: The moves are now starting. bast and heathcliff are first on the list.
Update: 1:42am: heathcliff […]

Graveyard server moves

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago (September 24th, 2007 at 5:58 pm PST)

Continuing with our datacenter re-arranging tonight we’ll be moving 2 mysqls from one rack to another.
mimsey
figaro
We will be moving these at 1am pacific time, and the downtime should be no more than 15 minutes. We will post another update here when the moves are complete.
Update: 1:06am pacific: The moves are beginning now. We […]

File server chiller died *resolved*

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago (September 24th, 2007 at 3:43 pm PST)

The head unit of one of our file servers, chiller, has failed. Admins are working very hard right now to replace it.
This will affect people on servers:
andor
atomic
cyrax
dali
dimarco
frigga
fud
genki
gradius
hug
kenobi
lilac
limbo-swarthy
narcissus
noid
postac
rock
samus
sektor
slash
slaw
soda
squirm
strange
thorin
tron
van
vidar
vlad
wiggle
zebes
Additionally, customers who are on these servers may experience issues with mail.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and we will provide more information on this as it becomes available.
UPDATE: The […]

dreamhoststatus.com maintanence

Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago (September 22nd, 2007 at 5:07 pm PST)

We will be doing some work with dreamhoststatus.com for the next few hours, so access to it may be sporadic.
You may get strange errors and/or broken pages while we’re doing this, but hopefully it won’t take very long
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause!
Sincerely,
The Happy DreamHost Break The Status Page Robot
Update: 9/24 […]