if there's any host which has hosting & shoutcast included in the plan?
I currently don't have an estimate of how much gb etc. for hosting & kbs, listeners for shoutcast...
So just post all the hosts you know which have webhosting & has shoutcast INCLUDED
ClubHostCity, CyberToad, IICT, etc - ALL Scammers - Proof Included
Three months ago I was looking to move to a dedicated server from my VPS account at WiredTree. I posted on a couple of message boards and found an ad on the cPanel.net forum and decided to PM the owner, "Spiral" as he goes by on their forum. That's when my hosting experience started to spiral out of control...
The owner PM'd me back and forth several times (posted below) and mentioned that he "OWNS" most of the large datacenters and hosting providers, even LayeredTech and others even bigger. He went on and on about all the places he owns and how I could get a great discount through him, regardless of where I wanted to go through. He even stated that nobody in the business does anything even half as good as he does. Sounded good enough...
Well, after deciding on the server he suggested at LayeredTech's site, he said he was going to set everything up for me and send me the billing and login details. I got several emails and PMs giving me all the normal info, IPs, addresses, logins, etc. I setup the subscription for payment in PayPal and was happy as could be...
As I started noticing some software issues that I wanted to get help with, since I had a "fully managed" server, I tried contacting the supposedly stellar support for the CyberToad/ClubHostCity/IICT.net/etc company. As I sent numerous emails to the support@clubhostcity.com email address I was told to use, I never once got a response. After finally getting in contact with the admin via a private email address I had, I was told it must have been a fluke and it wouldn't happen again. What I didn't tell them is that I tried sending emails from 8 different email services, both free & premium.
As time went by and I had more issues, I tried repeatedly to contact numerous email accounts and phone numbers that I found across the net for this company, still to no avail. No auto-response, no personal response, no answering machine, nothing.
Finally, this past Friday, my server went completely offline for no apparent reason. Again I tried contacting anybody I could think of and still I got no response. Finally I got a hold of a phone number for the admin and he answered, from his "hospital" bed. He stated that the server had a power supply issue that took out the motherboard and ruined the hard drives. The only option was to wait as they got everything figured out and back online. This was the last I'd hear from the one-man "support" staff.
Well, after three and a half days of trying to call this number back, I got tired of the notice that the number had been disconnected so I dug down and worked as hard as I could at getting LayeredTech to understand my situation and to help me. They looked through their logs and tickets and discovered something that just blew my mind... The reseller cancelled my server and dozens of others for a supposedly "future hardware upgrade reasons". Keep in mind, they cancelled the servers all together, leaving the drives with all the data to be recycled into other member's servers. LT confirmed that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the servers, no hardware or software issues at all. They had been cancelled flat with no upgraded hardware ordered, nothing. They even saw the proof that I've paid for them in advance on time and that I have nothing on my server against any TOS, not even a single curse word.
Finally, after working tirelessly, I convinced LT to put the server back together and keep the hard drive from being wiped. I had 10 hours to get my data moved over to a new service (SoftLayer) that has been absolutely awesome to me. I've gone to a site that is related to this cluster f8ck of companies and saw in the forum that numerous other individuals are having their servers taken offline and haven't been able to get any type of response at all.
Since this issue started, I've done a lot of deep digging and discovered a lot of things that I really don't like about this group of companies that really makes me worry for the safety of other customer's data and businesses. I'm a smart cat and I don't get taken very easily and I'm sure others won't be as fortunate as I was at getting their data back.
Below are some of the pieces of information that I'm sharing for proof...
Quote:
Chat log with Matt Tilson on MSN, screen-name of "mdtilson@hotmail.com" & "CyberToad":
CyberToad: Do you do anything special that requires the system outside of Cpanel or the hosting accounts?
Me: nope, I just use it for the websites and the maintenance/setup of said sites
CyberToad: LOL. You do realize I own 76 hosting companies and most all the major data centers, right?
Me: I wasn't aware of that:-O
CyberToad: IE: Not a problem
CyberToad: Did you by chance see my post from earlier this week in Ads / Offers on cpanel forums?
Me: I was just looking through the ads/offers section as we speak
Me: I see the one you posed but it's for $145/mo
Me: I see a decent one for serverpoint
CyberToad: That's one of thousands of configurations but one that might work for you here. If that is something you might be interested in, I can give you $20 off the monthly price and apply the VPS upgrade money towards it
Me: thanks do you have a site with the different plans or options or are they mostly per request?
CyberToad: I have many, many sites. Top pick for dedicated servers would be [url]. Our main shared / reseller brand would be Clubhost City at [url], for VPS hosting rackforce.net, for free hosting cybertoad.net
Me: wow, I'm taking a look at layerdtech right now, this is your company? nice
CyberToad: one of many
CyberToad: (Side note, I was on the Plesk development team and using that for many years before getting involved with Cpanel so well familiar with both sides)
CyberToaderver has IMAP, POP3, SMTP, SMTP2, Webmail
Me: Sorry, I need to be more clear, Google doesn't have it so don't worry about changing anything for that
CyberToad: Spam protection on the server is about 100 years more sophisticated than anything Google has or will likely ever have and probably 200 years ahead of anything Cpanel has by itself
Me: I honestly can't tell you how much of a relief and learning experience it has been to work with somebody that knows what they're doing. I will recommend your companies to everybody I know. I've never been so impressed with customer service for anything
CyberToad: PHP v5.2.2 (pre-release) for scripting and v5.2.1 with full options for web sites
CyberToad: Oh well you haven't seen our customer service yet! (haven't gotten past me yet..... we have 24 hour monitored support, helpdesk, ticket systems, live chat, AI expert help systems, toll free support, multiple help regional centers, etc
Me: Hey, you've already sold me
Me: My site is down again. I'm not able to login even to cPanel to try and restart things and I haven't been able to get a response from ClubHostCity's support staff either.
CyberToad:
Me: I've sent four different emails to support@clubhostcity.com the past week from different email accounts (including one on the server you host) and have yet to get a response, again.
Me:?
CyberToad: We haven't received any mail from you
Me: Do you use webmail?
CyberToad: Uh yeah .... I'm on the Squirrelmail development team!
Me: I need to get info on who I should contact with urgent issues like my server being unresponsive. I tried looking around at clubhostcity.com and the helpdesk link doesn't work and I'd like to know who I can contact since I have the completely managed service included in my monthly fee.
CyberToad: The helpdesk like works perfectly unless you are going to the wrong page. [url]
Me: My site is to a crawl and won't even fully load for me. I'm at work so I can't log into cPanel and see what's going on because of the firewall here. Could you please take a look at my server and see if something going on?
Matt, My server appears to be down again and has been for about 15 hours or more. I tried getting a hold of clubhostcity's support to no avail and I really need my sites back up. Can you please take a look at it?
Me: I don't mean to sound like a jerk but this has been completely unacceptable. I cannot get in contact with anybody to get my server back in gear. It's going to be going on 24 hours and that is unacceptable by any standard.
CyberToad: Instead of sending email (especially since your mail provider isn't working right), I would suggest submitting support tickets directly using our helpdesk ticket system at http://support.clubhostcity.com
Me: I can't ever seem to get a response, I've sent this same question around 6 times over the past month or two. I still can't submit any tickets via the support help desk as it doesn't give me any option of where to send one.
Me: My server is completely down and yet again I can't get a hold of anybody with any support at your company. Please respond.
Me: Anything you can do to get this fixed ASAP would be great. The server has been down for almost two days and I've been emailing support@clubhostcity.com trying to get help to no avail.
Me: I know you have other things going on but I really need to have my sites back up. Can you please have the techs move the drive to a new machine or something? It's been 48hrs and I haven't even heard why the server's been down, let alone an ETA on when it'll be up. This is costing me a lot of money by having my business offline.
Me: I have confirmed with LayeredTech that the issue is not hardware or server related but that you (the reseller) actually requested the server be turned off. This is a complete nightmare for my company and you have no right to do this. I need my server back up and running now.
i am getting these error in my shoutcast server...after while the server is in these port is crashing...wha exactly is these
[yp_add] yp.shoutcast.com gave extended error (Please identify this station's genre (in the dsp plugin YP tab).
I am doing a business plan to start a Shoutcast Hosting Service,
We already decide to go with the FDC servers, and for running
the server I would like some help on these issues:
1. What system operation should I select for the server:
- Windows 2003 Web/Standard Editions
- CentOS 5
- FreeBSD 6.3
- Gentoo LiveCD.
2. How about the best control panel to use:
- Plesk
- Cpanel
3. Do I need to install on the the server just the
Shoutcast Server file or also the DSP and Transcoder
for Unix (sc_trans_lame)?
4. I also need the Cast-Control software to manage the
accounts and streams, but according to the instalation
manual I need to use a MySQL Configuration ?
Because I dont know nothing about SQL databases!
After deciding recently to use 3ix.com's hosting service (as reccomended by a few friends) my account was setup within 5 minutes, all good so far. Until I decide to use thier "customer support", take this at shock value:
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Considering the size of the company, and I was talking to "Techinal Support", I am appaled, by the lack of knowledge and cheek I recieved.
Overall I am appaled by the customer support.
To be honest at first I thought the operator was confused, then I realised she's a thick as a plank.
The companies director(s) will be receiving this as present from me to them
I've recently ordered two new servers with Windows OS, and am wondering how I go about making sure the hard drives I ordered are the ones actually installed, and the RAM i ordered is the ram actually installed.
I know the amount of ram and amount of diskspace is correct by Properties and My Computer but not sure how to figure out the others.
Does included mod_mono module in cPanel/WHM support ASP.NET 3.5?
I didnt found any related details on that project`s website.
How to update out of date components included in VPS? For instance...
rkhunter is at v1.3.4 whereas the current version is 1.4.2. Why both about updating? Well, in part to reduce the number of false-positive warnings and in part to gain more current protection.
A yum update isn't possible as 1.4.x has moved on quite significantly from 1.3.x and while downloading and installing rkhunter isn't terrible difficult, trying to get it to update the 1.3.4 version included with VPS seems somewhat more difficult...
SpamAssassin is at v3.3.1-3 whereas 3.4.0 is the current release version and 3.3.2 is no longer supported, meaning 3.3.1 is definately way out of support. Why bother? Better spam detection and blocking
When VPS will update to something nearer current versions of both of these components?
I was trying to set up archive-my-tweets [URL] .... and I seem to have gotten stuck with a 403 error. When I remove the .htaccess file the 403 goes away but so do the rewrite rules so that's a problem.
You'll see the contained .htaccess file that's included in the project.
Basically for now I'm just trying to run this on my mac. I have set up the files in a subdirectory of my personal web server. The personal web server is working fine--but when I go to the /tweets directory I get the 403.
With a competitive price, comparable to Google Apps Pro Edition.
In my opinion is a very good product, http://tinyurl.com/68d9h5
that unfortunately I can't resell yet
I still think that Scalix and Zimbra provide a better -final user- experience that Open-Xchange but in business, speed is a must, and having a product before a competition is a competitive edge. You can't keep waiting a company forever.
BTW, Just wanted to take advantage to comment how poor and oldie look the webmail interfaces, we hosting providers provide to our users. With the exception of Windows Email systems and Roundcube, most control panels come with Squirrelmail and Horde, look old. They are good and stable but they are and look good.
Some days ago, I got a new customer and after I gave him the login info for their Cpanel 11 account and webmail, he told me:
"..I don't like the webmail.. I use Yahoo email all the time, and it is easy to use. Squirrel looks simple, but it is "ugly"..."
I must admit, that I felt embarrased.
What did I finally do with him? Configured Google Apps for free for him. Now he is happy. But I am thinking is that if I start to find more customers like this, my business will end up in charging for configuring "nice webmails..."
I bought a VPS a few days ago and I'm trying to run a SHOUTcast on it.
The VPS is Linux, CentOs to be more specific.
I've installed Shoutcast and it's running, It's working with WinAmp as the website I'm running it on tells me what song is currently playing, how many listeners there are, etc.
It also says:
Server Status: Server is currently up and public.
Im trying to install shoutcast to my vps so i can sell them now I have downloaded linux script from shoutcast.com
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a windows server 2003 running shoutcast.
I have two questions:
1.) Is there a way to send signals via Windows? I need a way to have shoutcast reload it's configuration file without kicking the users. Normally, on *nix, you could just send the kill -s SIGHUP command and it'd do it. But I can't figure out a way to do this on windows.
If this isn't possible, does anyone know if you can run shoutcast RELIABLY under cygwin?
2.) The LogFormat that shoutcast outputs looks like this:
Code:
c-ip c-dns date time cs-uri-stem c-status cs(User-Agent) sc-bytes x-duration avgbandwidth
the problem is that cs-uri-stem doesn't include cs-method ("GET") so AWStats fails with the import of the log. Is there a way to manually add this into the way AWStats parses it?
If not, is there a special way to parse shoutcast w3c logs in AWStats?
weve had a box at fdc for over a year. everything was fine until about half that time ago and consistently has gotten worse over time. We've always been really good at tracking down problems til now.
traceroute and ping results are usually pretty normal, the machine is not overloaded however our server can barely handle any amount of listeners anymore, in fact it appears as tho the number of listeners has no effect on the server skipping and buffering every few minutes.
we've changed the sources its been fed from
checked the connection from multiple locations
ping and trace results are always decent or shouldnt warrant skipping with any number listeners. in a year weve gone from consistently hosting 100+ to barely getting over 20 and often less lately. its a huge bummer.
Any one know of a better auto streaming program as I keep having trouble with my shoutcast server.
It constantly needs rebooted and has issues where people have trouble connecting.
First one i tried was Implux.net and after a year or so started getting a lot of skipping/buffering problems with the streams.
I'm now with Serverroom.us but cannot stand the software they use CentovaCast or at least don't like the setup they use.
i have a dedicated at datacenter. may i know how do i install shoucast from SSH?
View 5 Replies View RelatedMe and a few friends of mine are planing on creating a Shoutcast online radio station and honestly I'm new to how Shoutcast servers work and witch host would be best for me and my friends. I have a few questions on all this.
Am I suck using Winamp to play our music over the server? Or are there other more professional tools to use?
This server will be used among a few friends of mine. So if no one us broadcasting will the server play a song play list till some one starts broadcasting?
Shoutcast servers only Stream music to Winamp players only?
Anyone here got any experience with “rackedhosting.com” Shoutcast service?
i upgraded my server a few month back to a better one.
SINGLE XEON QUAD CORE 3210 / 1066FSB / 8MB CACHE
4GB DDR2
x2 500GB SATA 7200RPM (RAID-1)
50 Mbps Burst Speed
for what ever reason when i try to tune in to my radio it takes more than 10 seconds for the radio to start playing (specially on my port 8000). while other stations (competition) start right away.
my question is does it matter if i have my dns like this: [url]:8000 instead of [url]:8000 or do i have to look for something else not well configure?
i have many dedicated servers... but whats the recommend spec and internet speed and bandwidt for say 2000 listners at approx 80kbps each...
View 0 Replies View Relatedwith installing a SHOUTcast server to my VPS? I googled all around and followed the tutorials but I can't seem to do it. I'm also having some trouble SSH into the server.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWell seeing as my partner is in charge of services, n he is away, i got stuck with learning it. N i was just testing shoutcast n how to install it.
But seeing i was only testing i didn't care what IP it was on, n i stuck it on the main ip which i kinda don't want it there anymore?
So how do i remove/uninstall shoutcast?
after restarting my server i tried to start my shoutcast servers whicj right now its not working...i am getting an error when i am trying to start them again "error opening source socket! FATAL ERROR! Some other process is using this port!"
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've only tried whmsonic shoutcast admin pro to create sc accounts
I used whm to create cpanel hosting accounts before so had an idea.
With whmsonic admin pro i was a bit lost, creating cpanel hosting
accounts so i could ad those features to shoutcst accounts
But from what i've read, cast control is more straight to the point
You don't need to be creatings cpanel accounts first etc etc.
Is there others that any of you have on your servers for setting
up shoutcast accounts with hosting for uploading audio files ect
Autodj and so on.
There are somebody in the forums to find ShoutCast Host, but I do not understand what is ShoutCast Host.
View 5 Replies View Relatedi have a serious problems with my shoutcast accounts the last 2 months...i create in my ports 8002,8004,8006,8008,8010,8012 some shoutcast accounts via cast control...every 3-4 hours some of my accounts is crashing....i can't understand why....so every 3 hours i am going to cast control panel to start again the shoutcast server of the account which which crashed....i don 't know what to do any more...my hands up...
i found these script which i can use via cron job to check if each shoutcast server is up
#!/bin/bash
dte=`date +%d%b%Y`
cd /where/ever/you/run/stuff/
##-->> Check to see if sc_serv is running <<--##
ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep sc_serv >sc_serv_ok
if [ -s sc_serv_ok ]
then
##-->> Everything looks good, remove the file and exit <<--##
rm -f sc_serv_ok
exit 0
else
##-->> Log the error <<--##
echo "Possible abend of sc_serv" > sc_serv_prob_log.$dte
##-->> Email the log <<--##
mail -s "sc_trans" your-email@domain-name.com <sc_serv_prob_log.$dte
##-->> Restart sc_serv <<--##
cd /path/to/shoutcast/
./sc_serv
the problem is that i can't found the conf file for each account...where exactly CAST CONTROL creates it..i have the free version of cast sontrol 1.4...
I will run my shoutcast server at 40bitrate stereo.How many bandwidth i need for 1 listener 24/7 connected?
How many for 20users 24/7 connected?
how to install shoutcast with full details i cant installing.
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