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.
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?
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!"
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.
i'm still not too sure how to put all this together, And im starting to feel stressed out
I think i need a dedicated server with cpanel/whm installed on it before i can install whmsonic and start selling radio streams with hosting right?
How much is this gonna set me back if i want to create a lot of accounts on one sever, I am aware that you should only put so many accounts on one server.
I want to be able to offer the extras to the users so if they are not using their account for live shows they can use the auto dj features plus they'd have their web space for uploading audio.
And all the good stuff that comes with those features. An example of what i'd like to offer is on sleepy engineers.
I just don't know if i have to get all this seperate and put it on a dedicated server mysellf or if there's servers ready with all this installed and ready to use.
And i don't have a lot of cash to start out Im thinking 100$ per month to start with.
I like cast control's features, but i've only used whm/cpanel before, for setting up web hosting accounts.
Most reseller packages put me off it's never really my own service.
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 have problem with shoutcast accounts....i have some shoutcast servers in ports 8002,8004,8006,8008,8010,8012... every day some of the shoutcast server or all, goes down and the customers can connect by winamp...so as result i am always go to start the servers by myself...why these happening?why the servers are going down? is there an automatically way to start them when they stop?
I have come across many hosting providers recently who sell shoutcast servers with a set amount of bandwidth. e.g. their plan would be 100 slots, 128kbps with 100GB bandwidth/month.
I was wondering how they are able to monitor the bandwidth usage of a single shoutcast server and enforce a limit?
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..
