outage posts

This afternoon, I heard thunder and saw some dark clouds to the north, but didn’t get a drop of rain. Driving to my parents, there was tree debris on the roads, some police activity, and a couple branches down off the side of the road.

After eating dinner at my parents, it started raining, then got super windy.

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Dreamhost must’ve had an outage of some sort this (last) morning. I noticed a little after 11 that I couldn’t upload anything to or log into my (shared) server. My sites were inaccessible. I tried the sites of a couple other people I know using Dreamhost (also shared), and they were also inaccessible, so it must’ve been something somewhat significant. Strangely, nothing relevant was on Dreamhost status. I tweeted about it at 11:20 and got a response from DreamhostCare that they were looking into it. They didn’t say anything more, but I noticed things were up and running again around 11:42. I found later that it must’ve been a DDoS on their nameservers. Outages have been rare, but certainly annoying when they happen.


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