Tonight we’re going to be doing janice and gonzo again, starting with janice at about midnight pacific. We believe we have resolved the issues we had last night with the upgrades and things should go pretty smoothly. Check back here for updates as things progress!
Update: 12:09am pacific: We are getting started on janice [...]
Tomorrow we will be upgrading ns2.dreamhost.com to apply some security patches. The actual downtime should not last longer then 5 minutes but during this period you may notice site slowness due to dns lookups failing at ns2.dreamhost.com. The upgrade is planned to start at 10:00PM PDT and should be finished around 11:00PM PDT.
UPDATE 10:00PM PDT [...]
We had very few directly-related issues with the previous batch so we’ll be doing another group of servers shortly. It’s the exact same change as before (changing from mod_fastcgi to mod_fcgid) and should go very smoothly. The list of affected servers is:
alexander arkanoid attila baht bam bob bomberman caesar centipede contra cornelius cortes [...]
The web-server named ‘rock’ has failed. All attempts to getting it back up have also failed; thus, I am failing it over to new hardware right now. It should be back up within an hour. You can check your web-server by clicking the “Account Status” link in the panel. If your web-server is not ‘rock’ [...]
And the final 2 file servers for this week are going to get upgraded tonight:
janice
gonzo
We’ll be starting with janice in about an hour, and proceeding with gonzo after janice is completed.
As always, we will post updates here as things progress!
Update: 11:15pm pacific: we are starting on janice right now.
Update: 12:56am pacific: due to some problems [...]
Tonight’s round of upgrades include the following servers:
boppity
scooter
We will be starting with boppity tonight in about 20 minutes. We will post updates as things progress!
Update: 1:58am pacific: boppity is upgraded and we’re currently working on taking care of straggling issues before we get started on scooter.
Update: 2:39am pacific: ok, boppity has the all clear. [...]
As mentioned last week, we will be performing upgrades to some of our file servers over the next few weeks. Tonight’s file server is animal (and hopefully gonzo afterward)
We will be starting the upgrade shortly. We will post updates as things progress!
Update: 3:09am: the upgrade has been completed and the file server is [...]
Unfortunately, redbull has crapped out on us today. I’m moving it over to new hardware and it should be back in about an hour.
Update 12:35: Looks good! Let your helpful DH tech support person know if you’re still having trouble!
Garth has experienced a hard drive failure and is currently being moved to new hardware. We expect to have everything back up within the next 30-45 minutes.
We will post an update again here when things are finished!
Update: 11:20pm: oops! this has been done for quite some time now, actually. Sorry for failing to [...]
One of our file servers in the “frisky” cluster is experiencing some trouble. Our admins are en route to the datacenter now to get it back online ASAP. Updates to follow.
Update: 7:06AM Everything is back online. Sorry for the troubles.
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