# Dreamhost having Ruby issues

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-having-ruby-issues/61058>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 19, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-having-ruby-issues/61058 "2006-05-19T18:51:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Doug_Pfeffer)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-having-ruby-issues/61058/1 "2006-05-19T18:51:24Z")

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Just an alert to Dreamhost users. I saw that a few of my Rails sites  
were down, and after further probing noticed that a plain ol’ Ruby/CGI  
app was down too. Even irb isn’t working. Can anyone else confirm this?  
I’m on the ‘venice’ server.

Thanks,  
Doug

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**Author:** ![Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Doug_Pfeffer)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-having-ruby-issues/61058/2 "2006-05-19T19:16:47Z")

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On May 19, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Doug Pfeffer wrote:

> Just an alert to Dreamhost users. I saw that a few of my Rails sites  
> were down, and after further probing noticed that a plain ol’ Ruby/CGI  
> app was down too. Even irb isn’t working. Can anyone else confirm  
> this?  
> I’m on the ‘venice’ server.

The best way to get this solved is to contact dreamhost’s support  
instead of posting to the ruby-talk mailing list.

–  
Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net)  
This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant

[http://trackmap.robotcoop.com](http://trackmap.robotcoop.com)

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**Author:** ![Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Doug_Pfeffer)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-having-ruby-issues/61058/3 "2006-05-19T19:28:31Z")

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Already have contacted them. Just giving a heads up to anyone else who’s  
apps are down.

Doug

Eric H. wrote:

> On May 19, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Doug Pfeffer wrote:

> The best way to get this solved is to contact dreamhost’s support  
> instead of posting to the ruby-talk mailing list.
> 
> –  
> Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net)  
> This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant
> 
> [http://trackmap.robotcoop.com](http://trackmap.robotcoop.com)

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**Author:** ![Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Doug_Pfeffer)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-having-ruby-issues/61058/4 "2006-05-20T00:07:11Z")

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Doug Pfeffer wrote:

> Just an alert to Dreamhost users. I saw that a few of my Rails sites  
> were down, and after further probing noticed that a plain ol’ Ruby/CGI  
> app was down too. Even irb isn’t working. Can anyone else confirm this?  
> I’m on the ‘venice’ server.

Thanks for posting this, Doug – a handy heads-up. I noticed IRB wasn’t  
working, but didn’t think to check my Rails sites.

I wouldn’t classify this as off-topic as some others seem to be;  
Dreamhost is a popular Ruby-capable ISP.

And they have resolved the issue.

> **[DreamHost Status](https://www.dreamhoststatus.com/)**
>
> We continuously monitor the status of DreamHost and all its related services. If there are any service interruptions or maintenances, information will be available here. 
> 
> Need help? Please contact support via the DreamHost Panel.

Last night we had a problem with our ruby on rails package causing the  
ruby gems to be unavailable. The problem has been fixed as of 10:30 GMT  
-0700 . If you are still experiencing problems using ruby please contact  
support.

Cheers,  
Dave

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**Author:** ![Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Doug_Pfeffer)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-having-ruby-issues/61058/5 "2006-05-25T05:22:15Z")

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My thanks, as well. I use DreamHost, and haven’t got  
around to finding out if I could use Rails over there.  
Question answered! (And if I had an app running, I’d  
find out about the problem a lot more quickly here…)

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**Author:** ![Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Doug\_Pfeffer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Doug_Pfeffer)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-having-ruby-issues/61058/6 "2006-05-19T23:18:05Z")

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Doug Pfeffer wrote:

> Already have contacted them. Just giving a heads up to anyone else who’s  
> apps are down.

I’m not trying to be snarky, but are you aware that posting through  
ruby-forum sends a message to an E-mail list, one where most subscribers  
do not use the same ISP as you?

–  
James B.

“Design depends largely on constraints.”

- Charles Eames