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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.

This offer is so limited, it isn’t even posted on the website!

There are only two is only one of these so you will need to get in quick with your order. Basically, I just found them sitting there doing nothing.

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

Included in the price:
Linux/Unix Operating System (CentOS by default)
Webmin Control Panel (on request)
Cast Control Shoutcast Panel (on request)
Extras:
Windows: £10/month
WHM/cPanel: £10/month
Setup time: 24 hours max (as long as it takes for a reinstall)

UPDATE: ONLY ONE LEFT!

The control panel updates are now complete, value network customers now have access to extras such as history graphs and listener location maps. Premium network customers will find that history graphs are automatically set up on all servers – so there’s no longer any need to activate them. If you’ve never activated your graphs, then they will start from today. Data from graphs that were already activated have been transferred to the new system so the history will still be there (although you may find a small gap of about an hour like in the example below – this will only be noticable for 24 hours).

Thanks to everyone that has given feedback on the new panels, any comments are very welcome and suggestions will be taken on board.

It’s been a busy day, the control panels on both premium and value networks have been updated. There are still a few small things to fix but it’s about 95% done now. Most of the changes are behind the scenes.

• Updated template
• Tidied up bits of code
• More user friendly and easy to read layout
• Public listener maps
• New server speed test
• More efficient ‘tune in’ links (quicker loading, easier on the server)
• Updated GeoIP database

Premium:

• New AutoDJ area coming soon

Value:

• History graphs coming soon

Any feedback is very welcome, and if you find any problems,or just anything that doesn’t look right then please feel free to open a support ticket by emailing support@mixstream.net from your registered email.

Over the next few days, I’m going to be updating the control panels and adding new features.

There won’t be much new in the premium panel as that already has a lot of things, but the design will be changed to be more user-friendly.

The value network panel will also be resedigned, with the addition of:

• Listener location maps
• History graphs
• Better javascripts for adding titles/stats to your site

I know some people have been expecting this for a while, but I do plan on having it all complete by the end of the week.

AutoDJ changes will also be coming soon, with improved scheduling.

The secure billing system has been successfully updated and new templates applied. If you see anything that doesn’t look quite right then please open a support ticket and I’ll check that out – although I haven’t seen anything wrong so far.