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04-30-2011, 05:49 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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I hate it when my host's status is "Major System-Wide Outage"
DreamhostStatus.com says:
Major System-Wide Outage
Posted (April 30th, 2011 at 2:37 pm PST) by Josh
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04-30-2011, 05:53 PM #2Retired Moderator
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Hopefully they get it resolved. I've always admired the transparency of DH's status blog.
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04-30-2011, 06:40 PM #3Web Hosting Magician
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Sounds like the dream turned into a nightmare.
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04-30-2011, 06:41 PM #4Web Hosting Industry Expert
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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?
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04-30-2011, 06:44 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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04-30-2011, 06:46 PM #6Web Hosting Industry Expert
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04-30-2011, 06:49 PM #7Web Hosting Magician
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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.
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04-30-2011, 06:56 PM #8Retired Moderator
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04-30-2011, 07:02 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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DH main site loads instantly for me, and pinging random shared servers from the status page all respond normally.
Strange.
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04-30-2011, 07:03 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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Dreamhost has had a lot of major outages lately, I wonder what's up.
Last edited by Tyl3r; 04-30-2011 at 07:15 PM.
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04-30-2011, 07:04 PM #11Web Hosting Industry Expert
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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.
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04-30-2011, 07:09 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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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...Last edited by Tyl3r; 04-30-2011 at 07:15 PM.
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04-30-2011, 08:19 PM #13WHT Addict
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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...
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04-30-2011, 08:22 PM #14The Linux Specialist
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Moved > Providers and Network Outages and Updates.
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04-30-2011, 08:54 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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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
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04-30-2011, 11:42 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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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.
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05-01-2011, 12:18 AM #17Web Hosting Master
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Yeah, not a single transit outage like their original message said.
Feel bad for them, hope they get it resolved!
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05-01-2011, 12:30 AM #18WHT Addict
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I do feel bad for them. To bad there are people out there than just want to destroy other peoples hard work.
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05-01-2011, 12:34 AM #19Web Hosting Master
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This was posted in the status page comments...I have no idea if it's legit or not:
http://i.imgur.com/zf0p8.png
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05-01-2011, 02:38 PM #20WHT Addict
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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.
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05-01-2011, 02:41 PM #21Web Hosting Master
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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...
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05-01-2011, 04:07 PM #22Disabled
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Apparently kiddies have nothing better to do.
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05-01-2011, 07:11 PM #23Web Hosting Master
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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...
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05-01-2011, 08:33 PM #24Web Hosting Industry Expert
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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.
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05-01-2011, 08:35 PM #25Web Hosting Master
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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?
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