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  • 15 Sep 2010
  • 1:50 pm
  • Apologies if you’ve received lots of emails re: s5.myradiostream

Sorry about all of the emails. This happened because when I reinstalled the server, I forgot to set it to start the web service up automatically. When the server was automatically rebooted last night, it appeared to the monitoring service that it was offline, so it was constantly rebooting.

The error has now been fixed and you will only receive emails once per outage.

The reboot system has also been reconfigured to check every 2 hours instead of every 30 minutes so if anything similar happens again then you will only get emails every 2 hours rather than every 30 minutes.

  • 10 Aug 2010
  • 1:49 pm
  • Limited support 19th August

Due to maintenance on the power lines in our area, the power supply is planned to be cut off between 9AM and 4PM on the 19th August so support will be limited. You will still get a response but only urgent work will be carried out during the power outage as there will be limited battery time.

  • 6 Aug 2010
  • 2:05 am
  • Directory and toolbar are back and better

I’m pleased to announce that after a week or so of limited service (stations only being updated twice a day), the directory is back with even more radio stations from our FreeStreamHosting.org network. This will normally mean hundreds more stations than before at any one time (thousands more overall)!

  • 3 Aug 2010
  • 11:22 pm
  • [maintenance] Free Shoutcast service

If you are on the free shoutcast service then you may notice a couple of minutes of maintenance on your server tonight or possibly tomorrow. This is due to the databases being moved to a new server which should improve stability on the stream servers.

Your stream will remain online and anyone already listening will be able to continue.

Paying customers are not affected.

  • 2 Aug 2010
  • 3:56 pm
  • Billing/Support area maintenance

The billing/support area will be down for a few minutes tonight due to maintenance. This is planned for around 12AM BST.

  • 2 Aug 2010
  • 2:30 pm
  • [update] Short period of reduced support

We have been informed that due to unforeseen circumstances, the work is not to be carried out today so there will be no power cut. Support will continue as normal.

  • 2 Aug 2010
  • 2:22 pm
  • Short period of reduced support

Due to some maintenance on the power lines in our area, the power supply is planned to be cut off for a short period at some point before 4pm today so support will be limited. You will still get a response but it won’t be possible for us to do any work other than to answer emails.

  • 28 Jul 2010
  • 2:12 pm
  • [update] Stats server back up

The stats server is now back up, but I’ve already ordered and am in the process of setting up a new server so will continue with that.

Once that’s set up, it may take some time for the DNS settings to update, but both servers will be active simultaneously.

The new server should mean that we don’t have the same problem again.

UPDATE: Unfortunately, it seems like the graphs wouldn’t transfer across to the new server for some reason, but as it has only been a few days since the last issue which resulted in the loss of graph data, not a lot has been lost this time. On the bright side, the new server should be much better as we’re using much higher quality hardware this time.

  • 28 Jul 2010
  • 12:09 am
  • [outage] Stats server is down

Unfortunately, the server that hosts Shoutcast statistics and the Flash players is down again. This will affect the following:

Flash players

Javascripts (listener number, online/offline etc)

Some control panel online/offline icons

Server playlists hosted by us (pls, m3u, asx files)

The problem is being worked on and the server will hopefully be back online tonight.

Thank you for your patience.

  • 24 Jul 2010
  • 2:43 pm
  • Adding new categories

I’m just posting this so that the new categories show up on the side menu and mailing list options