DreamHost Status

The webserver redhot has been having some stability issues lately, so we’re going to move it to new hardware in hopes of fixing it. This process should take about 30 minutes.
Update: This was finished at about 11:30am.

I apologize for the late post but I wanted to make sure that we had a resolution for you before posting here. Last week I saw complaints about slowness and timeouts. With some really excellent feedback from customers I was able to pinpoint when the issues were occurring and keep an eye on it and [...]

Some bad code caused our session database to back up which is resulting in errors and sluggish account control panel performance. The admin team is fixing this up and should have it resolved in the next 10 minutes or so.
Update: this issue is now resolved

The webserver persephone has experienced a hardware failure and is being moved to new hardware. This process should take about 30 minutes, and I’ll post an update when finished.
Update 15:51: I’ve finished moving persephone to its new hardware, and it appears to be working properly. If you have any sites hosted on this [...]

We are investigating what was causing customers some issues with pop and imap services this morning on the spunky cluster. At this time it seems to be working normally again but we are still testing and checking into the cause. Our apologies for the problems.
We believe we have found the problem server causing [...]

Lovejoy is getting a new network card to help with stability. The swap should go smoothly, but some downtime is necessary.
–Update: It took a bit longer than expected due to a complication. All fixed up now.

We’re currently experiencing networking problems on our ‘randy’ cluster (check the Account Status on the right upper corner of your control panel to see if you’re affected by this outage - if your email server is listed as randy, you may be). This is affecting web, mail, and mysql connections as well. We’re looking into [...]

Agnus was running into networking issues all night and we are putting its hardware out of its misery. Currently one of our senior techs is working on failing it over to new hardware now. It shouldn’t take any longer than 30 to 45 minutes to complete and be up and running again. We’ll be sure [...]

There’s an issue on hupmobile which is causing it to fail when booting. It’s being moved to new hardware shortly.

We are currently experiencing problems with the process that handles scheduled updates. This has caused a disruption in mail service. This will account for the password errors, imap connection errors, etc. that are being generated when attempting to access your mailbox. Newly created user aren’t being setup either. Our admins are diligently working to resolved [...]