Comments on: File Server Upgrades 2008-08-21 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2008/08/20/file-server-upgrades-2008-08-21/ Information about DreamHost Services Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:38:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-RC1 hourly 1 By: namii http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2008/08/20/file-server-upgrades-2008-08-21/comment-page-1/#comment-197793 namii Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:38:27 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/?p=887#comment-197793 I finally switched to MediaTemple almost a year ago due to problems such as these. I can’t tell you how pleased I am. Not only do they own up to their problems, (Dreamhost is no exception in this), they have so incredibly much less of these problems that I laugh at myself for thinking Dreamhost was a “Bargain”. I pay $200/year, and I get rock solid performance, great interface, 24/7 phone support, knowledgeable support teams, and a lot less bull crap. Trust me, if you have anything worth keeping online, then you need to abandon Dreamhost and jump to someone, ANYONE, who really cares about the quality of service and system performance. In my experience, that just wasn’t Dreamhost’s m/o. http://www.emlakarsa.net/ I finally switched to MediaTemple almost a year ago due to problems such as these. I can’t tell you how pleased I am. Not only do they own up to their problems, (Dreamhost is no exception in this), they have so incredibly much less of these problems that I laugh at myself for thinking Dreamhost was a “Bargain”. I pay $200/year, and I get rock solid performance, great interface, 24/7 phone support, knowledgeable support teams, and a lot less bull crap. Trust me, if you have anything worth keeping online, then you need to abandon Dreamhost and jump to someone, ANYONE, who really cares about the quality of service and system performance. In my experience, that just wasn’t Dreamhost’s m/o.

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]]> By: kitchen http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2008/08/20/file-server-upgrades-2008-08-21/comment-page-1/#comment-197116 kitchen Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:05:33 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/?p=887#comment-197116 @Martin: for some reason the upgrader was not going into the gui interface. The gui interface is the only place where specifying an nfs upgrade medium is allowed (seemingly), so when it was coming up with the text-based interface (which is actually what I would prefer, I wouldn't have to wait around for 25 minutes while it "sets up windowing system", but whatever), it was not happy. The reason janice took so long to figure this out is because I went through the entire installer process up to the point where it started doing the upgrade (from the wrong source medium) before I aborted. Luckily these machines have mirrored disks and I was able to boot back up off of the 'good' half of the broken mirror (we break the mirror, perform the upgrade, if it works we put the mirror back together and resynch). Anywho, solaris is a whole lot of fun! ;( @Martin: for some reason the upgrader was not going into the gui interface. The gui interface is the only place where specifying an nfs upgrade medium is allowed (seemingly), so when it was coming up with the text-based interface (which is actually what I would prefer, I wouldn’t have to wait around for 25 minutes while it “sets up windowing system”, but whatever), it was not happy. The reason janice took so long to figure this out is because I went through the entire installer process up to the point where it started doing the upgrade (from the wrong source medium) before I aborted. Luckily these machines have mirrored disks and I was able to boot back up off of the ‘good’ half of the broken mirror (we break the mirror, perform the upgrade, if it works we put the mirror back together and resynch).

Anywho, solaris is a whole lot of fun! ;(

]]> By: Ron http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2008/08/20/file-server-upgrades-2008-08-21/comment-page-1/#comment-197111 Ron Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:54:47 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/?p=887#comment-197111 I finally switched to MediaTemple almost a year ago due to problems such as these. I can't tell you how pleased I am. Not only do they own up to their problems, (Dreamhost is no exception in this), they have so incredibly much less of these problems that I laugh at myself for thinking Dreamhost was a "Bargain". I pay $200/year, and I get rock solid performance, great interface, 24/7 phone support, knowledgeable support teams, and a lot less bull crap. Trust me, if you have anything worth keeping online, then you need to abandon Dreamhost and jump to someone, ANYONE, who really cares about the quality of service and system performance. In my experience, that just wasn't Dreamhost's m/o. I finally switched to MediaTemple almost a year ago due to problems such as these. I can’t tell you how pleased I am. Not only do they own up to their problems, (Dreamhost is no exception in this), they have so incredibly much less of these problems that I laugh at myself for thinking Dreamhost was a “Bargain”. I pay $200/year, and I get rock solid performance, great interface, 24/7 phone support, knowledgeable support teams, and a lot less bull crap. Trust me, if you have anything worth keeping online, then you need to abandon Dreamhost and jump to someone, ANYONE, who really cares about the quality of service and system performance. In my experience, that just wasn’t Dreamhost’s m/o.

]]> By: Martin http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2008/08/20/file-server-upgrades-2008-08-21/comment-page-1/#comment-197106 Martin Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:26:41 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/?p=887#comment-197106 Any chance of sharing the "problems with the upgrade process" with us? Your earlier post about this maintenance said you were running Solaris 10, so I'm sure this problem might be relevant for other people. Any chance of sharing the “problems with the upgrade process” with us? Your earlier post about this maintenance said you were running Solaris 10, so I’m sure this problem might be relevant for other people.

]]> By: Mindy McAdams http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2008/08/20/file-server-upgrades-2008-08-21/comment-page-1/#comment-197089 Mindy McAdams Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:16:36 +0000 http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/?p=887#comment-197089 My sites are still down at 6:14 a.m. Pacific time, and no one has answered my support e-mail. My sites are still down at 6:14 a.m. Pacific time, and no one has answered my support e-mail.

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