Due to a server configuration problem, InstantChatBox.net has been intermittent over the last few days.

This problem has now been fixed, and anyone using the service (Mostly FreeStreamHosting users) should find that it is much more reliable.

The shoutcast server s2 is being reinstalled. This will not affect any of our customers.

If you are on the free service and you are hosted on s2 then it should be back in about an hour, backups have been made so no data lost.

UPDATE (13:35): Problem during installation, will be fixed by about 4pm.

UPDATE (18:26): Back online

Due to demand, we now accept bank transfers so if you want to bypass Paypal and all the rest then you can do so. Bank details are on all invoices.

Some customers have noticed slowness on the control panel and billing/support system. I think I’ve found the cause of this – recently I installed a stats program to generate statistics for a few websites including streams hosted on freestreamhosting.org. Due to the popularity of the website, there are 1000s of people on the stream pages which was causing huge numbers of mysql queries. I’ve disabled the stats and the CPU usage on the server has gone from almost 100% to 2% which is more normal.

I expect no more problems.

The mixstream.net website and control panel may be unavailable for a short period of time while it is transferred to a new server. I expect it to be fully transferred tonight some time.

This has been resolved, the panel and support system were intermittent for about an hour or so. This was caused by the ram overloading.

I don’t expect any more problems.

This didn’t affect any customer stream or web hosting servers.

Due to popular demand, a fifth server has been added to the free shoutcast network. New users signing up at freestreamhosting will be put on to s5.

Just to bring things up to date, the control panel now includes stream statistics and a few other bits and bobs.

The design has also been updated to put it in line with the rest of the BellOnline websites.