LAX Networking upgrade
On Wednesday, March 12, starting at 10PM we need to do a quick network migration. We are moving from one router to a newer, larger router. This will hopefully solve a problem we are having with load balancing across our links back to our downtown datacenter. Cisco isn’t sure what is causing it, and we have no free capacity to do the troubleshooting they need to properly diagnose the problem.
The outage should be around 30 minutes, and will affect dedicated servers, looney, swarthy, spacey, frisky, and blingy. This is going to run concurrently with the Blingy file server upgrade.
Update 11:15PM Pacific: As of right now, I believe we are back in business. The blingy cluster took a bit longer to show OK due to the upgrade concurrently happening. Please let Technical Support know if after right now you are still having problems!
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March 11th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
i’ve been trying to get there
but no luck so far
March 11th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
i admit that i am an ignorant donkey.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
OMG IT’S ON FIRE
March 11th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
dhadmin why are you wasting time arguing about it! just fix it!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Not like it takes that long to post a reply here, evofuse
March 11th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
you don’t actually think there’s anyone on staff here who can fix things, do you? they’re all outsourced to India, and it’s lunchtime over there right now.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Does anyone find it odd that dh apparently doesn’t observe daylight savings time?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
I’ve been with Dreamhost since 2000 … but I must say, that Media Temple place is looking pretty promising at this moment.
WHY has the status page not updated??
March 11th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
I don’t care what’s said here, I’m just venting. Hope the folks at DH get their things in order real good soon, because it’s almost like they’re the “There’s always something” guys, and I don’t want that. Support has always been great with these guys, but I think their setup has got to improve some. I just hope my PS won’t be a dissapointment!
~Elrahc
March 11th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
so I’m on Step 1 of 5 on the support page….
March 11th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Drew: is it looking ridiculously ugly and plaintext (due to lack of CSS, I’m guessing)?
I can’t get it to go beyond step 1 of 5, no matter what I set in the checkboxes before I click the “Next ->” button,
March 11th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
well it took like 30 minutes to get to the point where I can click checkboxes…….
and yes, it’s plaintext.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
that’s odd…I can download emails from my phone…but not on the puter.
hmmmm..
March 11th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
So, since none of us have websites we can update or anything better to do, let’s take a poll…
If you had read this support page BEFORE signing up for Dreamhost, would you still have signed up?
A) Yes!
B) No!
C) Are you insane? The animosity here alone would have been my first clue that I should go somewhere else.
D) I’m a Media Temple user but I like to come by the dh status page for a good laugh.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Very funny, dhlover. How 3rd grade of you. >:(
March 11th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
D.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
I was referred here by a friend. Tomorrow I will uppercut him in the taint and push him down a flight of stairs.
I vote B but I had to erase my first choice C so sorry for the eraser crumbs and smudges.
evofuse/
March 11th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
*breaks out the 6-pack and chips*
there’s a cooler over there with some cold ones, feel free…gonna be a while…
March 11th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
OUCH! I cannot access my website or email! This is terrible!
PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP!
March 11th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Nice, web panel is down, all my sites are down. Can’t even contact support and nothing of any use here
March 11th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
All working fine for me
March 11th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Well, I *guess* I am glad to hear it isn’t just me having trouble… Sadly, yet another outage that has no status update. I’ve been having trouble getting to the panel (and even plain ol’ dreamhost.com) for HOURS now. Is the technician 15 minutes out again?
Sadly, I was trying to get to the panel to start transferring the last domain I have at DH. Looks like they’ve got me for the time being…
March 11th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
e-mail works now for some weird reason
March 11th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Just an update would be nice. I know not everything can be perfect, but come on… this silence is uncool!
March 11th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Hello
When you point hour can you add time zone ?
March 11th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Looks like my sites and email just came back online:
http://www.krunk4ever.com
March 12th, 2008 at 12:34 am
>”I was referred here by a friend. Tomorrow I will uppercut him in the taint and push him down a flight of stairs.”
very well played. Pulled a loud bit of laughter out of me.
@superdave
You’re right, I need to chill out and get a life. I mean it’s 10pm - i should be maxin and relaxin right? Maybe I’ll crack a cold one, eat some potato chips and watch Deal or No Deal re-runs all night.
Thanks for the tip, but if I wanted balance I’d be a gymnast.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Can’t upload to my http://FTP. I’m on the Strange server… that’s not listed in the networking upgrade is it? is Strange part of the Blingy cluster? eh… I don’t mind. I like coming here and reading all these comments during DH downtime. …. well.. can’t update my site.. gonna go play silent hill.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Just hope the upgrades go smooth tonite…
March 12th, 2008 at 6:07 am
10 pm ou 10 AM because it’s 10 am and all of my sites are down AGAIN!!!!!
March 12th, 2008 at 6:08 am
I’m on spacey/codered/indiana and everything is hosed..
site, ftp, mysql..
March 12th, 2008 at 6:37 am
um…. isn’t this the dreamhost ceo? http://flickr.com/photos/thingee/2321435301/
March 12th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Just wanted to say thanks dreamhost! I have been with you all for 3 years and just paid for one more year!
March 12th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Down on the 8th; down on the 9th. Down again on the 12th…obviously in sympathetic anticipation of the planned outage at 10 PM. Ooops…did I say “sympathetic?” I meant “pathetic.”
March 12th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Waaaaah! The panel is working fine for me, evofuse . hey, I know it is 20 minutes later .-)
For those of you that really feel you need to let DreamHost know that their panel is down (which they themselves use constantly, and probably notice is broken well before you do) you can always contact them via http://dreamhost.com/contact.cgi.
*OR* you could just say , “THIS SHIT SUCKS!” and visit http://fuckdreamhost.com - that should make you feel better … or not … but it’s at least as productive as whining and bitching here!.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
@RighteousIndignation:
You sir, win the prize for that second part.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Are they down early?
It’s the middle of the work day in my timezone… but it seems like things are going down before the scheduled 10pm.
Anyone else find this?
March 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
FYI Dreamhost doesn’t even get 99% uptime.