New Server But SHOUTcast Listeners Being Disconnected
Jun 29, 2008
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 have dedicated server with serveraxis.com for more than 2 years, no problem so far. I have there wordpress mu blog hosting (anyone can open wordpress blog there for free) + few e-commerce websites.
Yesterday I've got few complains about someone created spam blog [url] and sending spam emails promoting this blog. I've banned/disabled this blog (Note: we're moderating blogs on daily basis and removing spam blogs). What can I do else?
Later this day I've got message from abuse@serveraxis.com: "Server SO11316 has been disconnected due to multiple unresolved spam complaints." WTF?
I've sent them several emails explaining the situation that I nothing to do with spam emails and that I've disabled that blog few hourse ago.
Next day I've got response: "We can no longer host this server due the the massive volume of abuse complaints. We continue to receive abuse complaints regarding 208.68.209.13 even though the server has been disconnected.". IT'S EVEN NOT MY IP!
Server down for 16 hours!
Are those guys retarded? They even haven't checked spam email headers - there's nothing close to server IP address. If they were hosting wordpress.com and someone created blog on WP.com and spam the **** out of it - are they just shutdown their server. Or if you want shut down competitor website - you can just can send bunch spam email with their URL and serveraxis shut their server down.
Server down for 20 hours!
Please help! Need you advice what can I do? Sent them bunch emails - they are not responding. This blog hosting [url] just start became popular and I've got this present from serveraxis!
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.
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 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...
I'm think about starting an shoutcast web hosting company but i'm finding it hard to find any shoutcat resellers as i keep finds web ones not shoutcast
Having some issues with the shoutcast plan I ordered yesterday as well, the wixed site seems to have gone down for a while this morning as well. I hope this is resolved soon.
