Even DreamHostStatus.com was Down!

DreamHostStatus.com is the source where Dreamhost posts all announcements, outages and server issues. This time when the huge DNS outage occured, even the Dreamhost Status was down and no one had an idea what was happening.

"The secondary network DreamHostStatus.com (this site!) is hosted on was saturated due to a large increase in DNS traffic. After working with our provider for a few hours we’ve got it back up and we’re working to make sure the network saturation does not return."

Then they too decided to host an alternative Dreamhost Status on Blogger, but it did not work out.

"It's embarrassing to use Google, and Blogger won't let us do things like put a severity or "resolve" posts... I don't think? It DEFINITELY won't let us do a cool thing with our RSS feed to only show people posts that affect them.

But we will probably move it to somewhere totally different from everything else in our system. Maybe just a dedicated server provider on the east coast or some such nonsense."