For at least the past 5 hours, all of my domains/webmail/email have either been completely inaccessable (failed connection), or available for no more than 30-60 seconds at a time. Dreamhost.com and the web panel are accessable intermittently. I've checked with other folks who use Dreamhost, and they are all having the same problem -- much like problems that occured earlier this month.

I don't even see the point in submitting a support request, considering the problem appears to be widespread and there is no way that Dreamhost doesn't already know what's going on.

And yet, no announcement to be found!

What is going on here? Is this what we can expect to keep happening over and over again these days? I used to be so happy with Dreamhost, but over the past year I've become increasingly disappointed with the level of service. The amount of downtime (regardless of whether or not it's recorded accurately in the system status log) has become inacceptable. I love the services that Dreamhost offers, but without the support, communication, and uptime, those benefits lose an awful lot of lustre.

(Meanwhile, I am continually trying to post this and being met with connection failure messages...I'll just keep trying...)