I hate it when my host's status is "Major System-Wide Outage"

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Posted by raindog308, 04-30-2011, 05:49 PM
DreamhostStatus.com says:

Major System-Wide Outage
Posted (April 30th, 2011 at 2:37 pm PST) by Josh
Posted by Orien, 04-30-2011, 05:53 PM
Hopefully they get it resolved. I've always admired the transparency of DH's status blog.
Posted by musicman153, 04-30-2011, 06:40 PM
Sounds like the dream turned into a nightmare.
Posted by MikeDVB, 04-30-2011, 06:41 PM
Why do you hate it? Every provider is going to have a problem from time to time - at least they let you know they're aware of it and they're working on it... I don't see the issue?
Posted by raindog308, 04-30-2011, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeDVB

Why do you hate it? Every provider is going to have a problem from time to time - at least they let you know they're aware of it and they're working on it... I don't see the issue?

I love DH and have given then a nice review here. I've been with them for 5 years.

But I still hate downtime :-)
Posted by MikeDVB, 04-30-2011, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by raindog308

I love DH and have given then a nice review here. I've been with them for 5 years.

But I still hate downtime :-)

Understandable - but you didn't appear to be complaining about the downtime, but the fact that they posted about it. It just doesn't make sense to me, or at least, your original post and intent didn't.
Posted by musicman153, 04-30-2011, 06:49 PM
Actually http://dreamhost.com is still up. Is your site down? From the sound of the OP i thought the whole company was off line. this obviously is not the case.
Posted by Orien, 04-30-2011, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by musicman153

Actually http://dreamhost.com is still up. Is your site down? From the sound of the OP i thought the whole company was off line. this obviously is not the case.

DH actually doesn't pull up for me.
Posted by quantumphysics, 04-30-2011, 07:02 PM
DH main site loads instantly for me, and pinging random shared servers from the status page all respond normally.

Strange.
Posted by stablehost, 04-30-2011, 07:03 PM
Dreamhost has had a lot of major outages lately, I wonder what's up.
Posted by MikeDVB, 04-30-2011, 07:04 PM
If it's a carrier outage, as they claim, then depending on which route your traffic to or from DreamHost takes, it may or may not be up or down for you.

It's up for me and I'm on Comcast.
Posted by stablehost, 04-30-2011, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeDVB

If it's a carrier outage, as they claim, then depending on which route your traffic to or from DreamHost takes, it may or may not be up or down for you.

It's up for me and I'm on Comcast.

It baffles me that a single transit provider can take down their entire network.

"Update 2:54pm PST: One of our network providers is having issues right now. Our network admins are working on moving all traffic to our two other service providers. We will keep updating this post as soon as we have more information."

That means one of two things:

- They don't have enough capacity on their other providers, therefore saturating their links now.

- BGP isn't setup right (hard to believe?) or not all of their prefixes are being announced out all of their providers.

Either way, this surprises me, as DH is a fairly big company...
Posted by killigan, 04-30-2011, 08:19 PM
DreamHost is down for me also and I am on comcast.

It is strange they are down considering they have fairly big company.

I also like how open they are about what is going on. More companies should follow...
Posted by net, 04-30-2011, 08:22 PM
Moved > Providers and Network Outages and Updates.
Posted by raindog308, 04-30-2011, 08:54 PM
According to

http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2011/...m-wide-outage/

they are "still working to defeat this attack on our network."

So I guess there's more to the story than a single carrier problem.

BTW, I agree that DH's blog is a very good thing and I admire their transparency.

This is actually the first major DH outage I've really suffered, and I'm only inconvenienced because I was in the middle of setting up a new site. I know there have been other outages during that period but I've never noticed them
Posted by raindog308, 04-30-2011, 11:42 PM
Wow, this is starting to look pretty ugly:

Update: 8:25pm PST: Our abuse team is getting involved as well at this point. We have resolved issues on most of our routers, and have found over 500 compromised sites so far, that we are working on fixing. Overall things should improve over time.
Posted by stablehost, 05-01-2011, 12:18 AM
Yeah, not a single transit outage like their original message said.

Feel bad for them, hope they get it resolved!
Posted by killigan, 05-01-2011, 12:30 AM
I do feel bad for them. To bad there are people out there than just want to destroy other peoples hard work.
Posted by raindog308, 05-01-2011, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by killigan

I do feel bad for them. To bad there are people out there than just want to destroy other peoples hard work.

This was posted in the status page comments...I have no idea if it's legit or not:

http://i.imgur.com/zf0p8.png
Posted by killigan, 05-01-2011, 02:38 PM
I figured they were getting attacked because they announced the Abuse team was getting involved. Still, that is a major attack to take down everything they have. It isn't like they had just 1 rack or something.
Posted by raindog308, 05-01-2011, 02:41 PM
Turned out to be an idiotic dispute between two kiddies about who was spamming who's board, etc. The comment stream on the DH status page has all the gory details.

Some kid gets upset that someone has a rival forum and has the ability to launch a DDOS attack. Great...
Posted by M Bacon, 05-01-2011, 04:07 PM
Apparently kiddies have nothing better to do.
Posted by respite, 05-01-2011, 07:11 PM
Apparently kiddies are smart too eh? Taking down a Hosting Provider is purely what kiddies do right? Comeon this seriously can't be good for dreamhost...
Posted by MikeDVB, 05-01-2011, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Respite

Apparently kiddies are smart too eh? Taking down a Hosting Provider is purely what kiddies do right? Comeon this seriously can't be good for dreamhost...

Anybody with access to enough bot/zombie systems can take down just about any network. It's not until people, in general, get educated about the importance of up-to-date virus protection and keeping their operating systems and software up-to-date that things like this will become less of an issue.
Posted by raindog308, 05-01-2011, 08:35 PM
Allegedly the kid involved lives in England. I have no idea if that's true - just what I saw on the DH status blog.

Surely he'll be prosecuted for this...right?
Posted by CD Burnt, 05-01-2011, 10:19 PM
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