Archive for the 'System Changes' Category

Rails 1.2.6

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago (November 27th, 2007 at 1:14 pm PST)

It’s that time again! Right now I’m compiling a new version of Ruby on Rails for our servers. I will be testing and slowly rolling these out this week and next week. The upgrade should be completed by the end of next week at the latest. I will be carefully testing the upgrade to be […]

Scheduled maintenance on central services

Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago (October 24th, 2007 at 12:32 pm PST)

Thursday October 25th at 9:00PM PDT we will be performing maintenance on the following services.
Dreamhost Panel (panel.dreamhost.com)
Dreamhost.com
Mailboxes Web interface (http://mailboxes.dreamhost.com)
Dreamhost Scripts (http://scripts.dreamhost.com)
We do not expect any downtime of these services but there may be a few short outages while we shuffle things around. The purpose of this maintenance is to improve the performance and reliability […]

Core router upgrades

Posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago (October 17th, 2007 at 2:41 pm PST)

This Friday, October 19th, 2007 at 10:00PM Pacific time we will be performing emergency maintenance on our core routers. We are going to be upgrading the operating system on one of our core routers in our main facility, and one primary distribution router at our LAX facility. The total downtime shouldn’t be much longer than […]

Scheduled downtime of central services.

Posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago (October 17th, 2007 at 1:52 am PST)

Tomorrow Oct 18th 2007 at around 12:30-1AM PST we will be performing maintenance on some of our central services. This maintenance will include..
discussion.dreamhost.com (Dreamhost discussion forums)
dreambook.com (Dreambook)
wiki.dreamhost.com (Customer Wiki)
Webftp
Cloaked domains (Any domains that you have set to use cloaking in the panel)
We expect the outage to not last longer then an hour. The purpose of […]

File server shuffling

Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago (September 18th, 2007 at 8:30 pm PST)

On Thursday night, September 20th starting at 10pm Pacific time, we will be shuffling a handful of fileservers for the Randy and Spunky clusters. Each move should take no longer than 15-20 minutes per file server. This is to take inefficiency out of our racks and allow us to deploy even more newer/better/faster file servers! […]

Discussion List Upgrade - 09.10.2007 @ 2PM PDT

Posted 8 months, 1 week ago (September 6th, 2007 at 1:26 pm PST)

On September 10th, 2007 at 2pm, we will be performing an upgrade on our primary discussion list server. During this time, the server will be off-line, and all discussion lists will be inaccessible. This process will take approximately two hours.
E-mail and files related to discussion lists (including configurations and archives) will not be […]

RESOLVED Emergency webmail maintenance.

Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago (August 28th, 2007 at 4:02 pm PST)

We are currently experiencing some strange behavior with our webmail service. At this time we will be performing emergency maintenance on a few of our webmail servers. No downtime is expected , but there is a chance that there will be a few short outages. We apologize for the inconvience and this post will be […]

Webmail Changes

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago (August 21st, 2007 at 1:04 pm PST)

We will be migrating webmail to a bigger and better load balancer this evening. Webmail will be up on both its old (current) IPs and the new IPs at the same time so there shouldn’t be any downtime related to this change.
The move is scheduled to begin tonight at midnight, Wed Aug 22 00:00:00 […]

RESOLVED Webpanel Maintenance, August 15, 10PM PDT

Posted 9 months ago (August 13th, 2007 at 5:35 pm PST)

We will be performing some maintenance on our central databases beginning Wednesday, August 15 at 10PM PDT and ending 3 hours later at Thursday, August 16 at 1AM PDT. The expected downtime within this window is 2 hours. This will bring the DreamHost Webpanel, as well DreamHost-provided Squirrelmail offline.
UPDATE 12:59 AM PDT:
It looks like everything […]

Announcement List Configurations

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago (August 9th, 2007 at 6:00 pm PST)

The panel’s announcement list area (Mail->Announcement List) has some new changes where you can specify the redirect URL for where you want visitors to go after filling out the form. This will make it a lot nicer for configuring redirects rather than doing it within the HTML code of your website.
Don’t worry if you’re […]