Spunky and Central Move
We’re about to begin to move the spunky cluster and our central machines. We’ll be taking down servers soon, but our status site, of course, will remain up and running.
Again, we’ll try to keep this move quick and painless as we possibly can, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
For more details on this, see the previous post here:
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2008/03/14/central-services-and-spunky-cluster-move/
UPDATE — Sat Mar 22 00:12:05 PDT 2008 –
Most central functions are back up. Dreamhost.com and panel.dreamhost.com are working again. We are currently working on webmail. The spunky cluster move is still underway. We’ll post more here later.
UPDATE — Sat Mar 22 02:45:26 PDT 2008 –
Webmail is up! 99% of all central services are functioning now. Spunky is 80% racked, more info on that to follow.
UPDATE — Sat Mar 22 03:40:27 PDT 2008 –
Spunky is coming up. We’re spotchecking and fixing troubled file, web, and mail servers. We’ll sound an all when all is clear… We will likely be firefighting for the next few hours.
UPDATE — Sat Mar 22 06:01:28 PDT 2008 –
Spunky is still coming up, we’re dealing with a couple of machines that didn’t survive the move and some more cleanup stuff. We’ll keep you posted as things progress!
UPDATE — Sat Mar 22 07:04:35 PDT 2008 –
We have noticed a problem with some of our networks. They seemingly did not make the jump to the new router and we are looking into that. Any websites with IP addresses that look like either 64.111.xxx.xxx or 208.113.xxx.xxx are down to the outside world right now. The machines themselves are up so as soon as the networks are working again they’ll begin working immediately.
UPDATE — Sat Mar 22 09:55:54 PDT 2008 –
The networking problem has been resolved with our network provider so as of right now all services should be up and running. If anything is not working, please open a new support message from our web panel.
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March 22nd, 2008 at 5:45 am
Posted under “General Outrages.” haha
My sites are back. Relief. I was only freaking out for a couple of hours. Hope my clients didn’t notice.
…yes… an email next time would be nice.
Thanks.
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:46 am
hrrm ”;!–”=
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:50 am
ITs time now! 7 hrs….!
NO mail, so we cant tell our customers and members about this.
GREAT service.
Cmmon, up up upppppp with our sites.
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:50 am
All of ours are still down? This is the third time this week.
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 am
Boy I bet you guys are going to be tired.
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:57 am
I really would have appreciated an email notification. Couldn’t you guys have at least put it in the Dreamhost newsletter? That’s just inconsiderate to your customers…I’m not going to switch hosting services because Dreamhost has been great to me in the past, but this really sucks.
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 am
Looks like everyone who’s sites are on the servers involved in the move have their sites back up - but all the people who’s sites where not meant to be effected are still down.
This out of order in a big way!!!
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:00 am
Getting close guys — but my sites think the date is 12/31/01!
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:02 am
Better a wrong date then NO sites up.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:02 am
I don’t know where I’ll end up yet because I’ve just started looking for a new host this morning - I haven’t needed to look for a new one for over two years, so I need to figure out what everyone’s current reputation is.
Shawn: fuck you. You don’t know me. You don’t know what I do. I’m not up for paying a hundred bucks a month, or more, for dedicated hosting yet, but that doesn’t mean I’m not making money. I’m not rolling in dough - yet - but it’s not an insignificant amount. So, fuck you. Get your head out of DH’s ass. I can’t believe you’ve wasted as much time as you have simply insulting members who are affected by this. You offer no solutions, no helpful advice, nothing of any value to anyone. Go crawl back under the rock you were spawned from and let the grown-ups talk.
For the record, there are some things that can’t be argued. While I understand that shared hosting has risks and that downtime is to be expected, companies advertise 99.9% uptime. That’s 9 hours a year. My DH sites have been down for 24 hours this year. In fact, DH is one of the few sites that doesn’t advertise an uptime figure… they can’t, of course, because they have ridiculous amounts of downtime.
Defend that, Shawn. Better yet, don’t bother. I’m going out for a few hours, and I expect my sites will be up by this afternoon and I’ll have my recommendations for a new host that I requested from the groups I’m a part of. I expect I’ll not need to check the status here, so enjoy living in your own little world. I’ll not need to visit it again.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:03 am
My sites are back up but it seems that some of the files are 1-2 weeks old. Were things restored from a backup?
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:03 am
Okay, so i look “harry potter” LOL
and wait………..
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:05 am
WTF? Don’t you people at nightmarehost actually notify customers when you are going to take down large portions of your customers ahead of time anymore? You guys are really starting to suck!
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:07 am
Incidentally, regarding RSS - real companies don’t rely on one avenue of communication with the customers. Real companies post a message to the RSS feed, send out an email, and mention upcoming planned outages in the monthly newsletter. DH chose, this time, to post only to the RSS feed, which is probably the least-used method by the customers.
Don’t insult the customers by saying we’re all dumbasses for not subscribing to the feed and checking it daily, just admit that DH is fucking stupid for not utilizing all the available methods of communication. It’s not like it costs a million bucks to send out a goddamn email AND post to the RSS feed. There is NO reason not to do both. NONE.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:07 am
ah..all my sites have been down for hours!! This can get so frustrating >
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:07 am
i just read Kris’s message about the datebeing off: I hope that doesnt end up causing problems with billing
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:10 am
I haven’t seen any data loss on my sites… just the wrong date.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:11 am
9am CST here and all my sites are still down… guess I picked the wrong Saturday morning to tidy up some backend stuff…
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 am
All my sites on espresso server are down…:(
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 am
Argh, I can’t register new domains since this latest server move happened. Anyone else? I keep getting an ‘internal server error’.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 am
Shawn, Actually they do. Nowhere is it written in some holy ‘law of businesses online’ that one MUST pay for a dedicated server host for their business.
And when other similar sites offer the same deal, but with potentially less downtime, guess what, the one with better service wins.
Clearly you’re very defensive of Dreamhost to the point of being a fanboy troll, which is rather sad and pathetic.
Don’t get me wrong, despite this problem on the whole I personally am still happy with Dreamhosts deal, but fanboys like you give us DreamHost appreciaters a bad name, resorting to personal insults and calling people idiots that don’t understand real business. I can only assume you must be a teenager still as I find it hard to think an adult would conduct himself in the way you have in the comments.
*waits for the obligatory childish response back*
On a side note, email seems to be up again (though test email I send earlier has yet to be delivered), but all sites still down.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:19 am
10:20 EDST and my site on daedulus is still down
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:20 am
Stronzi!!
I need IT!!!!!!
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:20 am
44hq.com is down. In the spacey cluster.
Please fix asap.
thx.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:20 am
rexford is still down. It was down late last night too. I have local backups for non-static files so I can deal with a restore from backup. I’m glad this is on a weekend and not during regular business hours when I need my site up. I may have to look for a backup site so that I can access my pages when Dreamhost is down. It doesn’t happen very often but it is an annoyance.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:21 am
BAM is apparently down, even though it’s not on the list.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:24 am
Michael - how do you do that - have a backup site to access when DH is down - how do you duplicate everything - (I’ve got a blog)
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:24 am
The person posting as “Shawn” is actually a DH employee! I have irrefutable proof on http://www.shawn-is-a-loser.com/ that I can’t post here because they will just delete it.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:26 am
zeus in Janky Cluster and rootbeer in Spunky both still dead, mail working fine though. Seeing as Janky isn’t listed for a move I’m guessing this would be a central ip routing problem.
Least one good thing about delayed Formula One telecasts in Australia, will give me something entertaining to watch while I’m waiting to get some work done lol
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:27 am
Ok, site is up BUT according to my blog it’s now the year 2002. WTF? Get your shit together.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:29 am
I wish the only problem I had was the wrong year on the server lol
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:32 am
I wonder why two of my domains hosted at DH are up and the rest are down… I believed that when server ups all domains will go up and when down the same… ¿?
I’m on server ‘union’, anyone here withe domains hosted on server union?. Share your domains status please!
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 am
Good that now limbo-spunky4 is up, but that machine mostly uses 208.113.* IP!
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 am
Nooooooooooo…I am on 208.113.xxx.xxx…
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:37 am
I’ve decided the folks here with a brain need to get together over coffee/a beer/whatever and laugh at the folks like this:
One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
You’re paying for a service you’re not happy with and think they’re the idiots?!
Keep sending those payments. You’ll show them! Maybe throw in an extra $50 on next month’s bill to show them you really mean business.
- Chalk one up for Shaun (er.. make that two)
Ah well. My mail server still isn’t up, but that seems to be cluster wide. Other than that, I’m online.
Matt
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:38 am
I want my money back. !
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:39 am
my site is on a 208.113.xxx.xxx ip.
and thts my most important site!!!!!
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:39 am
Yeah, this is starting to get frustrating. My site’s still down. I’m not angry because I’m losing all those Adsense millions that could be rolling in (yeah, right), but this is a really long time to be down and it’s the second time in just a couple weeks. I just want people to read my site. It’s not just a “hey, I have a blog,” site and even if it were (thanks for the condescension, jerks) this would still be annoying since yes, people become attached to their websites.
And email notification would be nice in these instances. Dreamhost can just send it from a non-reply-able address, so they don’t get bombarded by angry hate mail, which is why I assume they don’t do that.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:40 am
It’s so slowly…and i hope you can solve it as soon as possible…Thank you …
By the way ,the chinese government is killing the people!…..
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:41 am
My site is still down. Has been since about 10:30pm EST last night. Bad timing since it’s a group that just switched over from Yahoo to forum format. Change is tough for some people, and this is like a nail in the coffin for them. Could even make the board fail after a strong start up.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 am
the US-gouvernment is killing the ppl, overall the world, dude.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:45 am
I never said anything had to be dedicated. You can pretty much hit near 100% uptime with two shared accounts & failover for hardly any money. If people can\’t do that, then they\’re site isn\’t the least bit important. Period.
Even two crappy 99.5% hosts aren\’t likely to be down at the same time. This has been explained more than once here.
Dreamhost does, because you whiners are here and aren\’t going anywhere. Any other tough questions?
Right, anyone that is too stupid to figure out RSS, or doesn\’t cry like a 3 year old non-stop, must be a fanboy. And of course, those that do cry non-stop and get stumped on the most basic things, are real geniuses and definitely not pathetic at all.
Thanks for clearing that up. You\’re really smart!
If I can give you a bad name, then you didn\’t have much of a good one to start with.
Are you saying that only teenagers can tell that you\’re an idiot? I\’d have to disagree because I\’m not one and I can tell.
Try being honest for once. You knew what you were saying was stupid and you knew you were going to get called out for it. Those disclaimers are as meaningless as when a troll says \”I\’m not a troll but…\” then goes on to demonstrate exactly what defines a troll.
Ooooh, lemme try lemme try! Why put any thought into anything when I can just put something retarded like this:
*waits for yet another clueless reply that will contain nothing useful, yet refer to others as trolls*
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:45 am
Keep sending us those useless newsletters but NO email notification for this kinda issue?? wow, how I love dreamhost
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:50 am
this has been 7 hours already righT?
gosh this shucks
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 am
Wow, you recycled the same joke for a fifth time and didn\’t get any laughs for a fifth time. I\’ll bet that even a retard like you will be able to pick up that pattern after a few hundred more times.
Go buy some more domains. Especially if you think I\’m a sockpuppet, which would likely mean that my name isn\’t really shawn.
It\’s cute that retards that can\’t afford to keep their sites up, buy multiple throwaway domains while doing their crying about downtime.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:55 am
aww this is sweet, keep up the good work, PAL!
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:56 am
>>If I can give you a bad name, then you didn\’t have much of a good one to start with.
lol Shawn, your last comment was soo laced with personal insults you only went to prove my point, silly boy
*sends Shawn an invite to anger management class* bless
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:56 am
What is going on with these two remaining networks that are unreachable from the outside world? It’s like they forgot to publish two ASN’s.
I learned all about ASN’s while getting my technology education at ITT Tech. ITT Technical Institute prepared me with real world skills and I am now making $45,000 a year in the high-tech internet industry!
Also, you people commenting are jerks. You should get a life like me and sit here getting trollbaited all night long.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:59 am
oh nooooo men.. what’s uuuup? aww, i need some good news, pleeeease!
March 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 am
For fucks sake…..
The router config issue a few weeks back cost me about $60, and this f’n disaster is running me $300 or so and counting.
Prior to that, DH had only borked me once in 2007…..in the range of about $50.
I think it’s time to explore my other options.