We have few dedicated bandwidth servers with a well reputed company. However 10-15% of our customers are complaining about video buffering (windows media live streaming, not recorded). I have asked for their speed test results (To nearest city) and they all seems well above 4Mbps and our videos are at 500kbps max.
We have enabled features like fast cache, fast buffer, and wireless corrections from Windows media Services 2003. However, nothing seems to fix the issue.
1. Do you guys have similar experience with streaming? If so what have you done to fix it? Is there any special settings in Windows media Services 2003 that i should be worried about?
I just took my first steps into Windows Media Services but I have some problems with the buffering of the stream.
I send from Expression Encoder 2 SP1 to my publishing point on my Windows Media Server.
But when the quality of the video is too high, I get some buffering problems when I'm watching the streamed video with my Windows Media Player. After looking 5 seconds to the stream, the windows media player stops with playing and in the left bottom corner I see the text "buffering". After 3 seconds buffering, the player goes further for a next of 5 seconds of playing and it continously does this.
I have a VPS with following features: Dual Xeon, 512MB Ram (up to 1GB), CentOS. Unfortunately MySQL is frequently down, about once per day, and it takes time to set up again. to change mysql config to resolve this issue?
I have a VPS with 2GB RAM. The load is always around 0.5 - 0.7. It's Xen VPS, and I see the VPS doesn't use swap yet. However, Apache is going down frequently. Might be 3-4 times per day, and DA informs me about the downtime when trying to restart Apache. In apache error_log, I haven't seen any special error. Just few lines like this Quote:
[Thu Dec 25 21:53:03 2008] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name!? [Thu Dec 25 21:53:03 2008] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name!? [Thu Dec 25 21:53:03 2008] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Thu Dec 25 21:53:04 2008] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name!? [Thu Dec 25 21:53:04 2008] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name!? [Thu Dec 25 21:53:04 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8b DAV/2 PHP/5.2.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
I wonder why Apache is going down frequently, and how to fix it?
I have a cpanel server with 2GB of ram. For the last two weeks , we are experiencing problems with apache in the server. Apache goes down frequently in the server and we had to manually restart the service everytime. chkservd do nothing for a restart. I had recompiled apache using easyapache script.
Strangely i can see some entries like the following in apache error logs
host: isc_socket_create: not enough free resources
I compiled it one more time but the errors still exist.
This is the Strange problem i face. my blog goes down while the server is up, comes back automatically after some time.
I can access the Cpanel without a problem, can anyone tell whats wrong?
Code:
C:Documents and SettingsGaurish>ping [url] Ping request could not find host [url] Please check the name d try again.
C:Documents and SettingsGaurish>ping [url] [url][67.228.104.181] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 67.228.104.181: bytes=32 time=495ms TTL=50 Reply from 67.228.104.181: bytes=32 time=468ms TTL=50 Reply from 67.228.104.181: bytes=32 time=500ms TTL=50 Reply from 67.228.104.181: bytes=32 time=515ms TTL=50
Ping statistics for 67.228.104.181: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 468ms, Maximum = 515ms, Average = 494ms During this i don't change any setting, so less chance misconfiguration
I've been running 3 Xen servers for the last few months in a production environment, and facing a strange problem with one of them.
Server 1 and 2 run a couple of DomU's and are running just fine.
Server 3 runs one DomU and takes care of all the backups for the DomU's of Server 1 and 2 The DomU on Server 3 is crashing every night, right when the backups are being made. DomU becomes inaccessible, but keeps appearing at xm list with state ------
When I try to connect to the console it wont let me connect. The only way to get the DomU back up is by using xm destroy and xm create again.
For the back-up I use NFS where the DomU on Server 3 is the host, and the other DomU's of Server 1 and 2 connect to it through an internal bridge.
Below you'll find some information about Server 3:
Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 G5 10Gb Memory ( 8 x 146G SAS10k in RAID 5 )
this is getting out of control. I have a dedicated server that is "unmanaged" meaning, I manage it
I typically can make my way around a server and do most things - but in this case I'm stuck. I host a number of websites on this box and have went over a year with little problems. The past month or so it seems as though the server crashes daily or every other day. It will be running just fine, then all of a sudden the processes and loads will go out of control until the server is just unusable.
What do I need to provide here for you to be of any help to me? I watch the processes using "top -ci" and it's typically small output - but when it's getting ready to crash it's like a ton of processes get backed up and continue running.
Many a times websites hosted on my Red Hat Linux server would not open even though Apache and everthing else is up and running. When i hit reload on browser 4-5 times the website would load or i have to restart Apache and everything starts working normally.
Today when this problem resurfaced i did not restart Apache and looked for in apache logs and saw this strange entry in apache Error Log;
[client my.ip.xx.xx] script '/my/website/httproot/mdqt.php' not found or unable to stat
The above was in apache Error Log, above is my ip address, and i never requested a file named mdqt.php, in fact no file by the name mdqt.php even exist on my entire server.
I then looked for mdqt.php in error logs and saw several requests made for this file and from various IP addresses.
Code: Kernel Version2.6.18-4-686 (SMP) Distro Name Debian 4.0 Model Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz I've installed the default apache 2, mysql, php using aptitude.
The server load is not at all high, around 1-1.5 max. The apache processes running are at an avg 60-80. It has 1GB ram and Disk Swap usage is 0kB
My server keeps rebooting every now and then. These are the messages I get in the ssh session just before the reboot..
Code: Message from syslogd@xxx at xxx kernel: Bad page state in process 'apache2' kernel: page:c17bc0a0 flags:0xc0000000 mapping:00800040 mapcount:0 count:0 kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed kernel: Backtrace:
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.
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.
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!"
