Major DreamHost Outage Hits VPS, Dedicated Hosting Customers

Web Host Industry Review (Jan 30 2012)

1. Many DreamHost customers are shopping around for a new web host after an outage on Sunday that lasted more than 12 hours, according to comments on its status page. This outage comes a week after DreamHost told customers to change their passwords after it detected unauthorized activity on its database. According to an update on Sunday night from DreamHost CEO Simon Anderson, the downtime affected many of its dedicated and VPS customers, as well as some shared hosting customers. The post says the outage occurred after a Debian OS autoupdate removed essential packages from dedicated, VPS and shared servers. Anderson says DreamHost has now turned off autoupdates and will now manually update Debian after “significant testing.” “There’s always a balance to be struck between speed, efficiency, security and issue prevention, but this event has shown us that we need to take a different approach,” Anderson said in a statement ... (Read Full Article)

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