On July 11, 2008 starting at 10pm [Pacific] we will have a brief network outage to restructure our routing tables. We are planning two hours to deal with any quirks that may come up, however our Cisco network engineer estimates the total downtime to be under 30 minutes.
From the data center: “Tonight at approximately 11:30 PM PST we will be doing some maintenance that may affect the performance / [...]. It is only expected to last about 10-15 minutes at most and we apologize for the short notice. This post will be updated as soon as the maintenance has completed.
jordan Tue, [...]
All our services will be down due to necessary server cluster hardware moving, reconfiguration and optimization. This move will begin Friday, March 21st, at 9PM PDT, and is expected to last up to 12 hours, until Saturday, March 22nd, 9AM PST.
Thank you for your understanding.
From the data center:
On Tuesday, February 5th at 10:30PM pacific time, we need to swap two volumes on two filers. These filers have both Randy and Spunky [we're here] mail cluster data on them, and they need to be isolated.
This whole process should take no longer than one hour. During which time your email [...]
From the data center:
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 [...]
Three MySQL servers need to be ‘re-organized’ in our Alchemy datacenter. This requires shutting them down for a brief moment. This will occur tonight around 22:30 PDT. The three MySQL servers affected are:
tweety, woodstock, and topogigo
This will affect a small number of users in the randy, spunky, and janky clusters. Check this [...]
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.
We’ve had some webmail and successively mail connecting issues yesterday and today. There were couple of problems with a database crash and a mail server. Now things are back to normal. Tested webmail ok on rambomarine.com and millswine.com — everything’s functional.
If you still experience connection failure in your Outlook [or similar] mail client apps, [...]
Kelly from the data center informs us all, take notice:
Our current “mail.dreamhost.com” certificate used by most of you for SSL email is up for renewal on Friday! We will be replacing it with a newer, better certificate with the name:
*.mail.dreamhost.com
It is also signed by an internal certificate authority, “New Dream Network Certificate Authority”. This [...]
Unfortunately we were informed this week that one of our data centers is requiring to switch 4 circuits from one power feed to another. This will take place on Tuesday night, June 19, at 11pm PDT. The circuit switchover should take approximately 5-15 minutes from start to finish.
We realize this will be inconveniencing quite a [...]