Filer problems with blingy cluster. |
We are currently having a problem with a filer which has crashed and is recovering at this time. While this is happening some customers in the blingy cluster will experience problems loading their websites/email. We apologize for the outage and service is expected to return to normal as soon as the filer recovers.
UPDATE 3:01:AM PDT
The filer has finished recovering and all services are back up and running. We are working with the filer vendor to find the source of the crash to prevent any further outages.
Update 24/03/08 10am: We’re working on the file server again to alleviate the load that’s causing problems with web, mail and mysql services. Sorry about that.
Update 27/03/08: We are doing emergency data moves to quell the stem of problems recently caused by your file server. During these moves, your data may be inaccessible. We are moving as we can off as fast as possible. Very sorry about the continued inconvenience!
Update 27/03/08 This series of moves has finished. We are going to keep an eye on things to see how much it helped and may have to do more moves tonight and tomorrow morning to get everything working smoothly again. This post will be updated with more information as soon as possible.
Update 29/03/08
We are continuing to move data off of the problematic file server but it’s a bit of a catch-22 because customers on that machine are continuing to add data at a very high rate. It filled up this morning for a while causing device full errors as well as mail problems and issues serving websites (when these fill up it causes problems across the board). To explain in more detail, when we move data it does not immediately disappear (there is a ’snapshot’ created of the old data that remains in case there was a problem with the move - that ensures that we do not lose customer data but until the admin team can check the move to make sure it went through properly we cannot delete the old data). We just did some of that and have some breathing room again and of course more moves are still in progress but we are asking customer on this cluster to help us by holding up on any non-essential uploads of data for the next couple of days. As soon as we have a significant portion of the data removed the problematic file server will begin to function properly (and additional moves will go much more quickly and smoothly) but right now we’re having trouble moving data more quickly than it’s being added by people. If everyone could please limit uploads to absolutely essential data until we reach the turning point where everything is working this will be resolved much more quickly (in other words if for example you are setting up a repository of large files you’ll actually be better off waiting a couple of days and getting the all clear from us on this issue because you’ll be able to access that data reliably instead of cramming it on there now and slowing the recovery process).
In the meantime we’ll be doing everything we can to safely and quickly move data off and get things back to normal.
Added information: Some of the people recently moved to the new file server are seeing errors because the data did not get set up completely (loading the site will work but just show an empty index). The admin team has been running an rsync that will fully restore all data and should hopefully finish by 9 PM PST - once that is finished all site and email data will be available for those users.
Update 30/03/08
We’re still racing to keep ahead of new data being added so any help we can get on that front is greatly appreciated (we’re still asking for customers to limit uploads as much as possible to speed up the recovery process). Some customers who are being moved are seeing blank directories still but those are due to moves in progress and the data will be fully restored when those complete.
Update April 1, 2008
We seem to be ahead of the curve right now, we are moving data off the primary volume and on to a secondary one faster than new data is being uploaded. The volume hasn’t filled up completely in a few days. We are working closely with the technical support team to see how we can speed up the process further. Thank you for your patience.
Update, April 1, 2008
I apologize for the late update but we’ve been going over our options (while moving data of course). While we’re not seeing any real relief in terms of data uploads we do have some very large moves that are almost complete. Once those finish we can start deleting the data (for example one is around a half TB or around 500 GB which will be 4-5% of the total but it’s going to take until around Friday to delete it all, so we’re dealing with a ton of data). Tomorrow’s update should be earlier in the day and hopefully we’ll have some progress to reports from the large moves being complete.
Update, April 3, 2008
The data moves to other file servers has been running constantly, but last night and this morning some complications happened with the moves, requiring admin attention. To clear up some space there had to be a short interruption in file serving, this is now finished, space is available and the moves are continuing. The admins are fixing up the last of the web servers which were having issues after file serving was restored. Our apologies again for the continued issues.
Update, April 4, 2008
Today has been a pretty good day of progress. We were able to complete even more moves and free up more data from the file server. Moves have been going quicker and stability is dramatically improving. Monitoring of the servers and email in the blingy cluster today have shown a significant decrease in problems. Issues do still exist but the problem is noticeably getting better. We are also pleased to note that we have more storage that will be coming early next week. We believe that this will go a long way in helping us fix this major problem.
Update, April 4, 2008
Things are continuing to improve today - when I got in I was pleased to see that we had held firm and even gained a percent (the effected file server was down to 95% which is as low as I have seen it in the last week and since I have been working it has dropped to 94%). Performance should improve as we gain ground (this will speed up moving data off as well). This progress, along with the added storage space we are expecting early next week should hopefully allow us to restore service for our customers to normal.
5:45 PM PST : The moves we started just a while ago seem to be causing server problems, we’re looking into it and should have it resolved shortly (they were run just like the ones that had completed so we have to determine why these specifically caused an issue). Update: this resolved itself before we could detect the cause but we’re monitoring the situation to ensure that it’s not a recurring issue (we have no indication that it will be).
Update, April 8, 2008
Please see our other posting for details on the work we did on the effected file server:
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2008/04/06/30-min-blingy-downtime-tonight/
We are also continuing to offload data and are making good progress (it’s never as fast as we would like it to be of course). There’s excellent detail here in case you missed it:
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/04/07/another-anatomy/
which chronicles the situation and fills you in pretty much up to today. We’re seeing the data dip to 90% so we’re hoping to have it down in the 80’s by the end of the week (every percent we gain helps and as performance improves we can speed up the rate of moving but we’re still looking to hit critical mass where you get the proper level of performance).
Update, April 9, 2008
As we had hoped progress is speeding up as we free up more space - while the file server is showing 95% usage, around 11% of that is data that has already been moved and is no longer in use. Due to a software issue we haven’t been able to remove it yet (the admin team is working on the best way to execute that), but once that is gone we should be around 85% usage which is another large step forward.
In terms of effect, I have already seen improvement in site function for many customers as well as greatly increased speed in moving chunks of data off as well as receiving reports that mail is functioning quite a bit better. That said this issue remains at the High severity rating and in unresolved status as we have not reached a normal level of service. I can’t stress enough how sorry I am that our customers have had to put up with this but I thank those of you who have stuck with us (check the newsletter for details on what we’re doing for Blingy customers) and look forward to providing you with the level of service we strive for at DreamHost.
Update, April 9th, 2008 21:59 PDT
Unfortunately, we need to unmount the volume again to kill these snapshots before they leave us with 0 bytes of free space. In 2 hours (midnight) I will be taking the problematic volume offline to delete the phantom snapshots. Total downtime will be between 10 and 30 minutes. Sorry for the short notice and additional outage!
Update, April 10, 2008
Well the snapshot mentioned yesterday is gone and we’re actually at 83% used today which is below where we were hoping to see marked improvement (85%). Of course we’re still moving data off (which increases the usage on the file server) so that won’t fully translate to customer usage improvement but it should be quite a bit better and keep improving until we stop moving data.
Update, April 14, 2008
Okay, we’re finally getting ready to mark this as resolved.. things have seemed pretty much okay for a while now. But, just to be sure, we’re dropping the severity to Medium for now and leaving it as unresolved.
Update, April 17, 2008
We’re still hearing some reports of site slowness - we were able to resolve an issue causing high loads today which should help but we’re not going to consider this resolved until everyone is receiving good service.
| Severity: | Medium | Resolved: | No |
March 27th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
CHRIST YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKING STUPID, HUMORING THE SPAMMERS.
None of these people are happy Hostgator customers — they suck worse than dreamhost.
That link is a Javascript redirect to an affiliate link - plus that criminal is so busy trying to hustle you out of money that he doesn’t even care that his domain name is a trademark violation. He’s just marketing scum that’s getting paid to come here and round up dumbasses (no shortage of those!).
Same goes for astonishinghost — another shitty host that has to spam their ads and target retards that don’t know any better.
FACT: THERE ARE OTHER GOOD HOSTS BUT YOU’LL NEVER LEARN OF THEM HERE. GET RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PEOPLE YOU KNOW IN REAL LIFE AND ACTUALLY TRUST.
If you clicked on any links in any of these posts (they’ve spammed all of them), then you’ve been hammered with spam cookies and need to delete them.
CHRIST YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKING STUPID, HUMORING THE SPAMMERS.
None of these people are happy Hostgator customers — they suck worse than dreamhost.
That link is a Javascript redirect to an affiliate link - plus that criminal is so busy trying to hustle you out of money that he doesn’t even care that his domain name is a trademark violation. He’s just marketing scum that’s getting paid to come here and round up dumbasses (no shortage of those!).
Same goes for astonishinghost — another shitty host that has to spam their ads and target retards that don’t know any better.
FACT: THERE ARE OTHER GOOD HOSTS BUT YOU’LL NEVER LEARN OF THEM HERE. GET RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PEOPLE YOU KNOW IN REAL LIFE AND ACTUALLY TRUST.
If you clicked on any links in any of these posts (they’ve spammed all of them), then you’ve been hammered with spam cookies and need to delete them.
CHRIST YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKING STUPID, HUMORING THE SPAMMERS.
None of these people are happy Hostgator customers — they suck worse than dreamhost.
That link is a Javascript redirect to an affiliate link - plus that criminal is so busy trying to hustle you out of money that he doesn’t even care that his domain name is a trademark violation. He’s just marketing scum that’s getting paid to come here and round up dumbasses (no shortage of those!).
Same goes for astonishinghost — another shitty host that has to spam their ads and target retards that don’t know any better.
FACT: THERE ARE OTHER GOOD HOSTS BUT YOU’LL NEVER LEARN OF THEM HERE. GET RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PEOPLE YOU KNOW IN REAL LIFE AND ACTUALLY TRUST.
If you clicked on any links in any of these posts (they’ve spammed all of them), then you’ve been hammered with spam cookies and need to delete them.
CHRIST YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKING STUPID, HUMORING THE SPAMMERS.
None of these people are happy Hostgator customers — they suck worse than dreamhost.
That link is a Javascript redirect to an affiliate link - plus that criminal is so busy trying to hustle you out of money that he doesn’t even care that his domain name is a trademark violation. He’s just marketing scum that’s getting paid to come here and round up dumbasses (no shortage of those!).
Same goes for astonishinghost — another shitty host that has to spam their ads and target retards that don’t know any better.
FACT: THERE ARE OTHER GOOD HOSTS BUT YOU’LL NEVER LEARN OF THEM HERE. GET RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PEOPLE YOU KNOW IN REAL LIFE AND ACTUALLY TRUST.
If you clicked on any links in any of these posts (they’ve spammed all of them), then you’ve been hammered with spam cookies and need to delete them.
March 27th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Those Hostgator cookies he’s planting on gullible people are good for 60 days, so even if you forgot you clicked, but do sign up there later, that crook gets paid.
March 27th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
In response to:
“I have a question…since this has turned into the “this host sucks” board…Has anyone used godaddy for hosting? I am building a site for a client and they are currently on a godaddy account. I can’t find any control panel or anything there… I see their account info..but no buttons or levers to pull…BTW, my other 2 hosting accounts with DH are running fine and have been for 2 years.”
Yea, I hosted at GoDaddy for a couple years, and still have a couple domains running there. Over all, their uptime and speed are fine. The main reason I left/am leaving/trying to leave GoDaddy is because their control panel and overall user interface is deplorable. (And I think the same on DH are the best I’ve seen.) Plus the owner of GoDaddy appears to be an extreme right wing type, so I’m not to keen on filling his pockets. But like I said, it’s their crap interface that drove me away. I’d have to click on like five links just to get to where I manage Email. Hope that helps.
March 27th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
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March 27th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
does anyone know more than what is posted with the single additional line.
as an FYI that has been posted before, but for those who are recently losing their minds:
if you can ge to your webpanel, just forward a copy of your emails to a gmail or other accnt. seems to work.
of course, those emails from before this forward will not be there, but it is a start.
this is making me lose a client. i am sad
March 27th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Hey guys,
I’m as fed up about this as the next guy, but lets not start fighting amongst ourselves. Things seems to be looking up for me, email responding in a sensible time, websites also, how about other people?
March 27th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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March 27th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
When people say “The power of free speech is some thing everyone should have” what they mean is “The power of free speech is some thing those with a little self control should have”
Please leave this message board free for people who wish to post useful comments.
March 27th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Was with Dotster for 5 years. Once or twice there was an issue, but always resolved quickly. Been with DH less than a month and since last Friday nothing but problems…Dreamhost pages loaded in less than 1 second, DH (when working) takes over 1 minute! Regretting leaving Dotster. Thanks for the referral TK!
March 27th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
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March 27th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
um, i hate spammers, could you please stop doing that. thanks.
March 27th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
When will you fix it?!? I can’t get access to my website or even FTP!!! Its take too long!!!
March 27th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
How dare you, sir! I run a fine business thank you very much, and we do not “spam,” we rescue innocent victims. By the way, my wonderful future customers, only 9 slots are left open for the free consultancy offer, so unless you truly do prefer to remain here wasting your time and money, you should begin your journey into true enterprise-class services immediately by visiting http://astonishinghost.com/signup.php or http://astonishinghost.com/sales.php if you still have any questions.
March 27th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
This is by far some of the most entertaining forum posting I have seen in quite a while.
-j
March 27th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Whats going on man! WHEN IT WILL BE FIXED ? GOD DAMN IT! My CLIENT IS UP MY ….. ALL DAY LONG! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
March 27th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
That’s a lie. You’re a worthless scumbag and Astonishing Host is garbage.
You even make that braindead Hostgator spammer seem like a genius.
Spamming is all you do–and you’re not even good at that. Astonishing Host is just pure trash no matter how you look at it.
You are either lying right now and intentionally misleading what you wish were future customers, or you are really so stupid that you don’t know what spam is. Either way, you’re not qualified to be in the hosting business and your very existence is proof that Astonishing Host should be avoided at all costs.
No, you are a bottom-feeding piece of shit. You have nothing better to do than beg on other host’s forums and the reason for that is because you/Astonishinghost are so pathetic, that the only way you can seem good compared to ANY host is to catch them on a bad like you’re trying to do here.
You have no ethics and anyone that would trust your company with their payment info is a fool.
And you talk like someone that’s too stupid to even cut it as a used car salesman. You can talk shit, but it’s not even close to being convincing.
AND you only target stupid people that won’t see through your scam, because you know that smart people would never deal with a trashy company like Astonishing Host. That quote proves it. You sound almost as lame as an infomercial at 2 AM claiming “ONLY 5 MINUTES LEFT ON THIS GREAT DEAL.”
You need the gimmicks because you have nothing to actually offer people for their money.
Now, let’s just make sure this post contains the relevant search phrases for those that are researching your company. Since you wanted to advertise here, let’s make you show up for the phrases that describe a scumbag like you the best:
Astonishinghost spam
Astonishing Host deceptive behavior
Astonishing Host lies to trick potential customers into signing up
Avoid Astonishinghost.com
Astonishing Host sucks
Better than Astonishing Host
Astonishing host NOT trustworthy
leave Astonishing Host
horrible reviews for Astonishing Host
astonishing host is the worst host
And since you are a pro-spam company, I’m sure your customers (SUCKERS) will love the IP blacklisting.
March 27th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Even the site is full of blatant bullshit lies…
“120% Uptime guarantee or a full refund, plus 1 year of free hosting!”
WTF? Even 100% doesn’t really happen. You’re just trying to get people to sign up so you can take their money and run.
“Child porn is okay because it’s not illegal in the state our DC is in”
??? Are you kidding me?!
The whole “compare us to other hosts” is full of made up BS and libel that will surely get you sued.
It’s probably the first hosting site I’ve seen with vulgar and racist content on the sign-up page.
I’ll see you in Hell.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
PLEASE Fix the problem or I will be homeless! PLEASE! I’m BEGGING you DREAMHOST!
March 27th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
some of us are trying to get information here. please stop with the rants, ok?
March 27th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Can we at least keep doing really long scrolling posts? Please?
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March 27th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
WILL YOU GROW UP PLEASE,!!!!!!! OR AT LEAST TRY TO BEHAVE ACCORDING TO WHAT OBVIOUSLY , YOUR MAMMA AND PAPPA HAVE NOT THOUGHT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 27th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
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March 27th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
DH: We really need either a new filer on this cluster or an additional filer to help distribute the load more evenly across the network.
March 27th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Jesus Christ, once all this gets sorted out, DH needs to force people to use their logins to post here to keep the anonymous assholes from being just that.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Dream Host - what do you need? At this point I will buy you new equipment to fix this problem. I’ll deliver it. I’ll help install it. By now I have lost more money than it will ever cost.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Everyday something at DreamHost breaks.
Kip
March 27th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
… said the anonymous asshole.
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March 27th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I’m just going to underline something - I doubt that anyone at Dreamhost is reading this comment thread, simply because we have these idiots doing the long spammy posts which serve no purpose.
Very disappointed. Already looking for another host.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
It’s always obvious when a DreamHost employee is posing as a satisfied customer, seeing as how that don’t have any real ones! Rather than working on getting these rightfully frustrated customers’ sites back online, you choose instead to be belligerent to an innocent Samaritan who actually IS trying to alleviate the suffering you’ve caused them. Neither my company nor I personally would ever back down before the likes of you scam artists.
Which is why we are left to clean up the mess companies such as yours have made over the past several years, while you proudly wear egg on your face?
Now THAT is a true spammer, why not save your venom for him. Unlike his, my links are absolutely free of nasty trojans and sneaky hidden redirects, the only thing http://astonishinghost.com/ will ever lead to is GUARANTEED 100% CUSTOMER SATISFACTION!
“Avoided at all costs” is a very interesting choice of words indeed, because as hundreds of your own customers testify right here every single day, the cost of sticking with your so-called service instead of switching to a competent hosting service such as mine is indeed incalculable, and I’m glad that even you realize that it requires no further effort on my part than just simply being in order to prove that. I need not “wish” for your customers to leave in droves and arrive at the Astonishing Host they deserved to be on all this time, for many have already done so and the orders just keep pouring in.
The customers in these comments are the ones begging for a way out of this disaster, I’m only being charitable by offering it to them. Can’t you see that they are miserable and hate you, and you want to force them to stay here instead of being happy yet you still have the nerve to speak of ethics to someone is merely trying to be generous to people in their hour of need? You should be ashamed of yourself! I’m sorry that you don’t like my diction, but since the high quality and amazing features alone usually sell our hosting for me, my highly skilled sales force already has plenty of inquiries to handle - but don’t worry, they are extremely efficient and can still take on many more.
Gimmick, how so? This is the Internet not television, everything is at your fingertips in real-time, and that was the actual number, which is now unfortunately none. It’s hard to go from 100 to nine that fast and still expect anyone to believe there is one left hours later, for unlike you, I have faith in and respect for your customers intelligence. Despite everything you so wickedly deceived them into having to endure, it’s still shocking that you actually have such little regard for your customers that you actually try to degrade them publicly. It’s no wonder you just blissfully ignore their suffering while you munch on donuts and argue with anyone who cares about how the horrible manner in which you treat them; they are nothing but worthless, “stupid” livestock in your eyes. This explains everything! Nothing to offer them? How absurd. Open your eyes and actually read about how these people are feeling, the losses they’ve suffered, all because of you, and here I can offer them peace and happiness through the one thing which would have spared them from this anguish all along, which is having a truly Astonishing Host, and you are now obsessed with destroying me? Perhaps I should not be amazed!
Nice try, but I already have a few rounds of golf scheduled with Larry Page and crew on Sunday, I’m sure everything will get all straightened out for me. Too bad I can’t say the same for those who stick with you rather than making the best decision of their lives on http://astonishinghost.com/signup.php !
March 27th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Okay, so… I think we’re all in agreement that we’ve lost complete faith in Dreamhost. Does anyone have any experience with (consistently) better hosting services?
March 27th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Why am I getting 403 Forbidden Errors on my sites and also getting password rejected errors on my email?
March 27th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 2071416 1327148 639044 68% /
/dev/sda3 7224600 3155804 3701712 47% /usr/local
/dev/sda8 2071416 95688 1870504 5% /tmp
10.175.4.69:/fcvol1/blingy/abbreviation
77371252437321868667518976 0 77371252437321868667518976 0% /home/.abbreviation
10.175.4.69:/fcvol1/blingy/wycliffe
77371252437321868667518976 0 77371252437321868667518976 0% /home/.wycliffe
10.175.4.69:/fcvol1/blingy/wynette
77371252437321868667518976 0 77371252437321868667518976 0% /home/.wynette
10.175.4.69:/fcvol1/blingy.localbackups/toadstool
77371252437321868667518976 0 77371252437321868667518976 0% /mnt/filerbackup
10.175.4.69:/fcvol1/blingy.crontabs/toadstool
77371252437321868667518976 0 77371252437321868667518976 0% /usr/local/var/spool/cron/crontabs
March 27th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Shawn Muder Said:
Why am I getting 403 Forbidden Errors on my sites and also getting password rejected errors on my email?
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Me too….
March 27th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Wow ! I cannot access my website now.
March 27th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
It seems like there datacenter must be held together with twist ties and chewing gum!
With the quality of the dreamhost stuff and the amazing comments on this blog I feel like I am in high school all over again…
March 27th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Come on guys, lets get these servers up and running.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
The free plans at astonishinghost.com are a scam as well.
There was a captcha on the sign-up for and the fuzzy letters spelled out “t h a n k s” — if I have to type in thanks, then it’s not really free because you’re expecting thanks in return for hosting.
BBB complaint filed.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
My email was down the other day, went back up, went down again today for most of the day, then was back up in the evening again.
To me this suggests that Dreamhost is moving our accounts to new servers and so forth, ie. they’re working on it. Why they’re not more actively updating the status pages is beyond me — maybe because each update would draw more attention than anything?
Anyhow, I researched Hostgator today based on the comments here and am all set to migrate and get my refund if both things aren’t working steadily AND they haven’t updated their status page by the end of Friday. In other words, even if they can’t get things resolved by the end of Friday, if they at least update their status page with something reasonable, then I’ll be staying.
Peace
March 28th, 2008 at 12:00 am
cystaltech.com is awesome. i’ve parked clients there for years now. their tech support always picks up on the 4th ring. good luck out there!
March 28th, 2008 at 12:28 am
hope it will be done ASAP!
March 28th, 2008 at 2:47 am
I’ve hosted with 5 of the others mentioned. Of the larger ones, well we all know how good GoDaddy is (ha!), Hostgator had systemwide failures twice last year (not just two clusters) and Bluehost toasted *every* account (700,000+) on their books in Jan ‘08 even after being forewarned that the Apache/PHP update script they had written was crashing the servers they tested it on prior to the systemwide rollout. Mail was backed up for a MONTH, not a couple days. You won’t find those facts mentioned on a few “webstat” sites because those companies are heavy advertisers on them.
If you think jumping from one shared host to another will fix anything then you’re dreaming, but should you decide to try some out then be very careful of the websites you visit when taking heed of any statistical analyses and the touted uptime and support claims, especially when they contain affiliate links. Those people aren’t posting to help you, they’re there to take a cut of your signup fee.
The clusters are coming up and site speeds are incredible again so I think I’ll take my chances here =)
March 28th, 2008 at 3:10 am
I’have try alot of low cost hosts in US and UE, for me it’s the best option, but i manage my domains in a local company out of any hosting company, i’ve 2 accounts, one in a European Host and one in Dreamhost (US), I’ve duplicated all websites and data bases and mail accounts in 2 hosts because this kind of companies late or soon will be down for any reason for some days long, and when this is going to make you get crazy you’ve just to change the DNS in domains and then all are going to be OK!!! in 2 hours aprox.
That’s my strategy and i happy with it using low cost hostings.
Do not pay for a fee in another hosting with same characteristics just to change to another that you think it’s better than DH… it isn’t better…
March 28th, 2008 at 4:22 am
I’m usually more than happy with the level of service, and while I can understand that the issues are important when it comes to this… but it doesn’t stop me becoming more and more frustrated.
Our forum over the last few days has been up and down like a yo-yo. Eight hours (at least) of constant downtime on Wednesday, and every time I sign onto MSN, I have members highlighting we’ve had yet more downtime.
The update is brilliant, but it’s not helping that apparently it was sorted, yet we’re getting absolutely nothing from Blingy right now; not even a forbidden, or “temporarily unavailable” message.
I’m not one to moan, but this is beginning to really irk me. =|
March 28th, 2008 at 4:34 am
agree, spunky move was supposed to make things better instead after the move blingy has been under a constant high load going from 30 to 200 during the whole day while before the spunky move the high load happened only at night (the situation was bad but still acceptable… now it’s not!). It’s been a week now and i really hope you get things sorted out quickly
March 28th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Why, don’t you guys start Blingy from scratch, or do a major make over so that we don’t have to suffer on this ill fated server
March 28th, 2008 at 4:45 am
My sites have been down since yesterday morning… NEVER seen this in a web host before.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Awesome that you updated this post guys! Seems like the e-mail I sent you might have helped ;-). Keep up the great work, and the best of luck with all of the problem-solving!
March 28th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Thanks for updating and letting us know what’s going on! I know there’s a lot of pressure on you guys. Just wanted to say thanks.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Well my account has yet to be moved….. server loads 233.67 119.92 91.48 | 3 Users Online (2 members and 1 guests)
YIKES
March 28th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Why overloading your servers??
It break acess for thousand of people!
Please be professional and stop this fucking way!