Recently we’ve made changes to FastCGI to disallow any environment except for Production when using Rails. This was brought on by some issues with the Development environment causing the quality of service to degrade. If you need to run your application in Development mode, please use your local machine for this. If you [...]
Due to continued space and power constraints in our primary data center, we will be moving all central DreamHost functions as well as the “spunky” cluster to one of our newer data centers. This move will begin Friday, March 21st, at 9PM PDT, and is expected to last up to 12 hours, until Saturday, March [...]
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 [...]
On Wednesday night, March 12, 2008 starting at 10:00pm Pacific time, we will be performing a major OS upgrade on the file server that handles the entire blingy cluster. This upgrade is at the direct recommendation of BlueArc to hopefully resolve periodic slowdown issues and other quirks of the system. The estimated downtime by the [...]
We are currently having some problems with one of our blingy clusters filers. It is being looked into and fixed at this time. Please check back as we will post more information when it becomes available.
UPDATE 4:00AM PDT
The problem with the filer has been resolved but there are still issues regarding sites down that are [...]
Due to a typing error on our primary router while trying to block a denial of service attack, DreamHost is currently offline. This includes all email, web hosting, etc. A technician is about 15 minutes out from our datacenter to undo this mistake.
I apologize for this mistake. I was intending to be editing our non-live [...]
This server isn’t coming up when rebooted. It’s now being moved to a new machine. Should be back up shortly.
Update: this was completed but the post wasn’t resolved. Sorry about that.
We are currently experiencing problems with one of the file servers in the “spunky” cluster. An admin is already on the way to the data center to investigate. When the issue is resolved or we have further information an update will be posted. Our apologies for the issues, we are working to [...]
The webserver korben has had one of its nics fail, so we are moving it to new hardware. This process should take about thirty minutes, during which time all sites hosted on korben will be down.
Update: this has been finished, please contact technical support if any of your sites hosted on korben are still [...]
A file server on the Blingy cluster is getting backed up with IO processes. This is leading to sky high loads and slowness across the cluster. An admin is looking into this as well as updating a trouble ticket with the file servers vendor.
Affected Servers:
agnus altair birdo bonk boo bowser clank cloud conker daxter dct [...]
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