Originally posted by xoc:
Dreamhost is currently under a DDoS attack. They usually take a little while to get under control. Usually they are focused against one domain, but this time the attack is against Dreamhost themselves. Possibly due to Dreamhost shutting down a site that tried to stream zillions of bytes of video earlier in the week.
Yep, I use Dreamhost for my personal site and webmail when I'm away from my home PC. Couldn't get to my mail for about an hour, and my site was intermittent as well. I just rec'd the update that they had to block "hundreds of IPs" to get it under control or something like that.
I always like checking here to see if there's issues with my host.