Archive for July, 2008

Dalitz crashed, filesystem check

Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago (July 31st, 2008 at 11:51 pm PST)

The web server dalitz crashed a little bit ago, and has been checking its filesystem since. It should be back up inside of an hour. We apologize for this inconvenience, these filesystems take about that long to check.
Update 12:17AM Pacific (Friday): Looks like Dalitz has come back up and is running normally.

Pligg 9.9.5 Available In One-Click Installer

Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago (July 31st, 2008 at 6:38 pm PST)

A major security update has been released by the Pligg team today and it is suggested any and all customers who utilize our one-click install of Pligg to upgrade immediately.  That can be done from the One-Click Installs sub-section of our web control panel under the Goodies section.  If you happen to see any issues with the upgrade, [...]

ns2.dreamhost.com nameserver issues

Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago (July 31st, 2008 at 5:42 pm PST)

We are currently having issues with our ns2.dreamhost.com server. It is not responding to queries and it may cause issues if you’re trying to point a new domain to our nameservers. After a quick check, we believe this may be due to a bad drive in the server. Our admin team is currently working on [...]

Capone is down

Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago (July 31st, 2008 at 11:48 am PST)

This will explain any problems that you’re encountering when attempting to access your website, ftp server, etc. I have notified an admin and they are currently looking into this matter. We truly apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Please check back here for future updates.
UPDATE: Capone is back online. Fscking a 4TB volume prolonged [...]

Moving Cheezit to new hardware

Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago (July 31st, 2008 at 9:17 am PST)

Our Admins are diligently working towards getting the machine back on line. Sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. Please check back here for future updates.
Cheezit is live on the new chassis, contact support if you have any lingering issues

Network blip for some customers

Posted 4 weeks ago (July 31st, 2008 at 5:31 am PST)

This is directly related to the network turn-up we did late last night referenced here:
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2008/07/30/network-maintenance-tonight-0730/
It appears that the IP access lists were not matching with GlobalCrossing and ourselves, causing a subset of our users whom routed in via GlobalCrossing to a specific subset of our IP’s to not be able to reach DreamHost. The GlobalCrossing [...]

Spunky Network File Server Issues

Posted 4 weeks ago (July 30th, 2008 at 5:22 pm PST)

Some customers on the spunky cluster might be seeing some outage issues. One of our network file servers is acting up and members of our admin team are scrambling to get this matter resolved quickly.
Possibly affected servers are as follows: admiralty aero alameda alondra archibald arrow atlantic avalon aviation babyruth barry bazooka beaudry bellflower [...]

Network maintenance tonight (07/30)

Posted 4 weeks ago (July 30th, 2008 at 10:53 am PST)

Tonight, around 10pm, we’ll be plugging in 5 new network links to expand our bandwidth by 50%. We don’t expect any downtime to be incurred but we’ll have our Cisco consultant on-site in case anything happens.
Update 11:53pm Pacific: We turned on the links, and we seem to be cooking along. The remote router hiccuped [...]

FrontPage Extensions will no longer be supported in the next few months.

Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago (July 29th, 2008 at 3:30 pm PST)

It’s been a long, tumultuous relationship; we’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve had many ups and downs, however, it’s time to part ways with Microsoft’s FrontPage web editor.
In the next few months, we’ll be moving over to a new version of Debian Linux, and this means we have to leave some [...]

Duck and cover!

Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago (July 29th, 2008 at 11:56 am PST)

Yep, we just had a decent sized earthquake in the greater LA area, but everything looks fine so far. We’ve done a quick inventory of our machines down in our datacenter and everything appears to be okay.
We’ll update this post if any issues manage to come up due to the earthquake.