Approx how many COD4 slots do you think i could get on the following spec server
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz (1066FSB) 80GB Raptor 10,000RPM 2GB DDR2 RAM Linux OS or Windows XP Pro (not sure if I will fork out the extra for windows or not yet)
We are using Apache 2.2 prefork on Debian GNU/Linux.
Sometimes it happen to us that we have really lot of apache processes (slots) in state "sending reply". This is not freed for several hours. Server status looks like:
The question is how it is possible that some apache process can be locked to one client for several hours. Other clients are being served by free slots, however what if we will have used all the slots and not freed them?
First off about myself: I'm your typical knows-enough-to-get-by web design CMS flash type guy. Nothing special no real training but if I need to run a control panel I probably can.
What I need: I'm moving an AM station(oldies) to online streaming and need a host for it. The variable here is the only reason I'm moving the station is because a radio show on it which runs 1 hour every weekday needs to expand our audience and all that good stuff. We'll be expanding the show as far as we can hopefully within the next year and on certain days we'd have more listeners due to having higher profile guests on.
However, since we have the stream 3 other shows on the radio station have offered to pay for the costs(we had to get a cable line run to the station in the first place)- presumably they would have a lower listener rate.
The question is what's the best solution here? We don't want to pay for a 2000 slot shoutcast service right off the bat, but we also need one who can rapidly expand our slots as needed, or possibly have one which just charges based on use. When we get up to high volume would it be smarter for us to just lease an unmetered dedicated server (high assumption of 1000 listeners(which is months off) for 3 hours a day running at 128k bit-rate the bandwidth really starts to add up) or a dedicated server that just charges based on usage. The latter may even be cheaper than using the high-priced-slot-based shoutcast stream servers.
I figure someone out there has already done the research can might know an answer to the problem. The key here is flexibility- no point paying $90-300/month for a dedicated server the first month if we're only getting 200 listeners on our show and 50 for the other shows but if we somehow experience a surge in listeners we don't want to be stuck at a low cap.
Me 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?
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?
with 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.
how can i add a domain without spending slots (im limited to 10 domains)? Basicaly i want to add my own domains directly as vhost and do the rest using the panel. I want this to run only on nginx instead of apache.
my current dedi server and want to configure shoutcast for the server. I have install the shoutcast located in /usr/local/shoutcast.
Just curious one of my customer would like to use the shoutcast so how can i create a user for them? should i install manually for each of my customer that want to host shoutcast?
I am considering purchasing a self managed server for my shoutcast station. I have extensive pc and windows knowledge, however setting up a web server for my shoutcast station is new to me. I have set up & configured the shoutcast dnas for Windows before.
I am starting off with a clean no OS server.
1. use linux or Windows?
2. if it's linux which version? Centos, fedora..
3. What software will I need to monitor what is going on.
4. Secuity..
5. control panels.. what to use and will I actually need SCpanel?
I am not going to be reselling.. this server will be for me exclusively.. I will only be using this server for broadcasting via shoutcast.
Now, Please don't flame me.. these are rediculous questions for some. I happen to learn very quickly and could learn what I need within days. I learned computers this way, I was tired of paying techs to service my pc's. Now i do it all myself..
I have a SHOUTcast Hosting website and one of my clients mentioned that the listners he has keep getting disconnected every now and then. Couple hours will be fine then disconnections start then it will go steady again ect...
Server Specs,
Dell Poweredge r200 (Upgraded) Quad Core 2GB RAM 1.5 Terabytes HDD 3000GB Bandwidth at 100Mbit connection. Centos 5.1 OS
Because its fine one moment, Couple hours or a day goes by with no problems then suddenly starts having problems we cant continue to listen to his radio all day to wait for the problem to appear. Just thought anyone have any ideas why this may happen?
I wonder whatLs more important on a shoutcast server, to get more bandwidth per month as possible, or a faster port connection?
I have test a 2 hours music stream at 128k bit rate and was only 5MB per listener ! This is not to host 24/7 radios. Its a project to host DJs /Live Bands at a maximum of 128k, with no more than 2 hours events.
Also each event between 50-80 listeners, and not at same days or hours.
About the port connection, what this means? : Port: 10/100MBPS SWITCHED VLAN
Is it shared and from 10 to 100mbps?
I am trying to find the best deal with dedi servers. Have at this moment a unlimited bandwidth /100Mbps shared, but it seems the CPU is too low (AMD Sempron 3100), as I canLt seem to create more than 40 shoutcast accounts (and no client is streaming, just ON), and the server load goes up to 4.5 !!
So, I am looking on the market , as I saw better deals with better processors (Pentium4, Core 2 Duo), and much cheaper (below $100), but they only offer 2000/3000GB bandwidth.
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.
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.
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!"
i 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...
