Archive for the 'System Changes' Category

Dedicated Server Mail Upgrades

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago (December 18th, 2007 at 12:36 am PST)

If you received an email last week about the mail service on your dedicated server being upgraded then you will be affected by this upgrade. If not then your upgrade will happen later this week and we will email you regarding the date and time of the upgrade. This upgrade should not cause more then [...]

Rails: The Revenge!

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago (December 17th, 2007 at 4:02 pm PST)

Just when I thought it was safe to upgrade, another version appears!
I’m going to start upgrading our servers to Rails 2.0.2. This involves packaging, testing, and then slowly rolling it out. The jump is to a 2.x version from 1.2.6, so I’m going to take my time with this one to make sure nothing goes [...]

Rails 1.2.6

Posted 9 months, 1 week 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 10 months, 2 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 10 months, 3 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 10 months, 3 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 11 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 12 months 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 [...]