The billing system that we use will be upgraded tonight to the latest version. This will cause a couple of minutes of downtime which will affect pages on secure.bellonline.co.uk while the new files are uploaded.

Due to slowness, I have had to restart the server s3. This only affects those using the FreeStreamHosting service. You may log in to restart your streams if they don’t come on automatically.

Please note that we never allow servers that are used for paid customers to get overloaded in this way – we have to get a lot of streams onto the free stream servers in order to make a small profit and this means that they sometimes need restarting. The main problem that we have is that a huge number of people sign up and start their servers then never use them again, I’m working on a system that detects servers that haven’t been used for 48 hours and shuts them down – this will reduce load on the servers enormously.

We did have staff reviews and some customer reviews but it looks like they have all been cleared so please leave your comments at http://www.broadcastingworld.net/reviews/hosts/27/reviews/

Action has been taken to remove the script that was hogging CPU resources on the web hosting server (eu1.5net.co.uk). I’ll keep an eye on things to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.

We have the following servers on offer, if you are planning on getting a dedi any time soon then this is an offer that doens’t come around very often – Unmetered 100Mbps USA bandwidth for only £79…

SERVER 1

AMD Sempron 2400
2GB RAM
2x80GB HDD
100Mbps unmetered – £79/month*

1Gbps – 50Mbps average – £149/month
1Gbps – 100Mbps average – £199/month
1Gbps – 200Mbps average – £299/month

ORDER / ENQUIRE

SERVER 2

Dual core P4 D 925
2GB RAM
2x80GB HDD
100Mbps unmetered – £109/month*

1Gbps – 50Mbps average – £199/month
1Gbps – 100Mbps average – £249/month
1Gbps – 200Mbps average – £349/month

ORDER / ENQUIRE

* Fair usage of around 50Mbps average. No overage fees. Chicago datacentre. More offers to come.

Most BELLonline owned websites now have a brand new look and the following sites have been launched:

http://nostringshosting.co.uk – non oversold web space with cPanel

http://cast-control-lite.net – Cast Conrol licenses

http://www.lowcostdedi.net – Dedicated servers

http://5net.co.uk – Reseller hosting – WHM/cPanel

Some of the websites don’t have huge amounts of info, but this will be added over the coming days.

From now on, rather than using the forums, I’ll be posting announcements here.

The main advantage of using this blog is that users can subscribe without having to register.  Simply enter your email into the subscribe box to the left.

I have moved previous announcements from the forums and applied the correct dates so you can still see the announcement history.

We will be introducing a new transcoder system which will give customers more control over their configuration.

Currently, only the source stream can be changed but this will enable customers to change the title, genre, bitrate/sample rate/channels, source servers and more advanced control such as low/hi pass filters. Song titles will also be more reliable.

The system us currently under development and I just need to fix a few issues over the next few days (the main one is that when the source stream disconnects, the transcoder stops).

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