Archive for October, 2007

5.6 Earthquake in San Francisco

Posted 6 months, 1 week ago (October 30th, 2007 at 8:56 pm PST)

Just writing to let everyone know that this doesn’t appear to have affected our San Francisco servers at all, nor our LA datacenters (didn’t feel it at all in LA)
Hope everything is ok up in San Francisco! We’ll be thinking about you!
For those interested, here’s information from the USGS about the earthquake…
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/122-37.html

File server Bambi having problems

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago (October 27th, 2007 at 6:46 pm PST)

The file server Bambi is currently down and has been having issues for the last hour. We’re working on restoring service to it as fast as possible. This can effect the following machines:
7up amp aquafina arizona barqs bawls boba brisk cactuscooler calpico cappuccino caprisun chai clamato codered coffee coke crush crystallight culligan dads dasani dietrite […]

One-Click Installs: WordPress 2.3.1

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago (October 27th, 2007 at 5:04 pm PST)

The version of WordPress on the One-Click Installer panel has been updated to 2.3.1. This is both an update for security and bug fixes, so it is suggested you update your installs as soon as possible. For more information on what all got changed, check out the official release post over on the […]

Moving triton to new hardware

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago (October 27th, 2007 at 3:14 pm PST)

The webserver triton has experienced some problems and is being moved onto new hardware. I’ll post an update when finished.
Update; 3:54pm: I’ve just finished the move and triton is now up and working. If you have sites hosted on triton and they are having any problems please contact support.

Network Outage

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago (October 26th, 2007 at 10:09 am PST)

We are experiencing network problems at the moment. This will account for for downtime, delay, etc. that you are encountering when accessing your site, email, etc. Our Admins are currently working on the issue as I type. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Please check back for future updates.
UPDATE 10:39 […]

Major Outage

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago (October 25th, 2007 at 9:53 pm PST)

We are currently experiencing what seems to be a system wide outage. We’ll post more information here as soon as we have it.
Update: Things seem to be working again, we apologize for the outage.

File Server Maintenance

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago (October 24th, 2007 at 9:08 pm PST)

One of our file servers for the spacey cluster has a dead battery! It will be going down around 10pm PDT for a replacement. Downtime should be no longer than 5 minutes.

Scheduled maintenance on central services

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago (October 24th, 2007 at 12:32 pm PST)

Thursday October 25th at 9:00PM PDT we will be performing maintenance on the following services.
Dreamhost Panel (panel.dreamhost.com)
Dreamhost.com
Mailboxes Web interface (http://mailboxes.dreamhost.com)
Dreamhost Scripts (http://scripts.dreamhost.com)
We do not expect any downtime of these services but there may be a few short outages while we shuffle things around. The purpose of this maintenance is to improve the performance and reliability […]

Server, LeSabre, Being Failed Over

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago (October 24th, 2007 at 12:28 am PST)

The web server, LeSabre is currently having hardware issues of an as-of-yet undetermined nature. We will be failing it over to new hardware and posting updates as available. We apologize for the inconvenience. This will only affect users on the server, “LeSabre”. Email service will not be affected…
-Update- 3:38am Pacific
The failover […]

Secondary name server experiencing packet loss

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago (October 23rd, 2007 at 9:31 pm PST)

The colocation facility that houses our secondary name server, ns2.dreamhost.com is currently experiencing some network problems, causing some servers to appear down, or unavailable.
We’re currently working with our provider to fix this issue, and will post more information as soon as we’re updated by by their command center.
–UPDATE– Tue Oct 23 22:59:36 PDT […]