Forum Activity for @ken-rich

Ning Ninga skin vs Site Builder

Using Jamroom

Could I interject a couple of quick questions here. I haven't had time to explore the site builder option yet.

1) Does it give ordinary users any more control of their profile layout (profile tweaks), or is it strictly an admin tool.

2) I think I was provided with this before but lost it before I had a chance to use it - sorry. Where is the best "how to" video/doc/instructions to add this to a pre-existing live site.

3) How much of a chance is there that this can mess up my live site. Do I need to test everything on a "sandbox" version first.

4) If I was set-up a sandbox, is there an easy way to "populate" it with a limited number of profiles, maybe with the import tool? Manually creating profiles with uploaded content would be tedious and too time consuming.

Speedy Jamroom hosting...

Jamroom Hosting

Just an update (since this was a question I had going in). I've been "live" in Jamroom hosting for a couple weeks now and performance has been rock solid.

I no longer get the drop offs in performance that I experienced at my old host. I can only assume those were being caused by sharing the server with others, and one of his other clients occasionally taxed the MSQL enough to slow down my access.

It was a "beefy" server with 8 cores and 8 gigs of ram. Speed was in 900's when nothing interfered, but unfortunately things interfered all to often. (My last host had "issues").

Now (on Jamroom) I am super fast all the time. My lowest test was in the high 800's, my highest in the 1100's, I am in the high 900's most of the time, and often break 1000.

I have a 50 GB site with most of the available Jamroom modules enabled.

updated by @ken-rich: 03/01/15 10:15:05AM

Create Radio Station

Using Jamroom

Bill yes, advertisements no. The bill is usually tied to bandwidth used, number of listeners, and size of file storage.

5$ a month will get you streaming where I am. You won't need to upgrade unless you have a huge library or lot's of listeners, such that you start sucking up the server's resources.

There would be no monthly bill if you were streaming from your own server. The license to set up WHMsonic on your sever is relatively cheap (under $150. if memory serves). Then you can create hundreds of stations and sell streaming services.

I just don't know if it can be done on Jamroom, since they don't use c-panel.
updated by @ken-rich: 02/25/15 09:34:36AM

Create Radio Station

Using Jamroom

The one I use is a c-panel plugin called WHMSonic which employs a Shoutcast server. Since Jamroom doesn't support c-panel access, I don't know what would work.

It would be cool if they did give us Shoutcast though, through whatever method they employ to control the Linode server. Then I could ditch a bill elsewhere and use my server resources here to stream.

It would definitely make JR hosting more attractive, if we had that option.
updated by @ken-rich: 02/25/15 09:25:35AM

Feature Request - Gallery ShareThis

Ning To Jamroom

Can we get ShareThis added to the main Gallery pages in Ningja?
updated by @ken-rich: 04/18/15 04:59:46PM

Create Radio Station

Using Jamroom


Hi Derrick,

Just a FYI on terminology.

That's a simple playlist player, a radio station is a different animal altogether. It has abilities like "live" mixing, voiceovers, etc.

Thanks for that tip though, I didn't know we could "gear up" a button player that way.

Create Radio Station

Using Jamroom


An update. I moved to Jamroom hosting and I am now running my radio sites from there. (eg. http://indiegospel.mobi ) is not built on the Jamroom platform, but is running on Jamroom hosting.
updated by @ken-rich: 02/22/15 12:14:59PM

Transfer and Hosting of Live 50 GB site - The "Tale of the Tape"

Jamroom Hosting


Yup...It's fast and one has peace of mind with the VIP support.

Even though my friend's server would hit in the 900's (when working right and not overloaded), I would drop to the 300's several times a day, depending on what demand was being placed by other sites.

Then there were rare times when server cron jobs got stuck (or some other tech issue surfaced). My network would become too slow to be unusable. Performance tests under 100 to under 10. Times like that it would take forever just to save a picture or complete a log-in.

In order to avoid frustrating my members, I was forced on occasion to put up a maintenance screen until the host resolved his tech issues. Therefore, I am quite happy to have "CONSISTANT" high speed.

Transfer and Hosting of Live 50 GB site - The "Tale of the Tape"

Jamroom Hosting

I am on the Jamroom hosting now. The switch-over of my live site ( http://indiegospel.net ) was relatively easy and uneventful.

I had my maintenance screen up for 20-30 minutes while we re-issued and installed the SSL certificate and the DNS resolved. Had to remap my profile domains as well, to the new server. (eg. http://kenrich.me )

Live speed tests outperform my old server by roughly 50-150 points (and it had 8 cores and 8 GB of Ram). New scores are generally high 900's on average, breaking 1000 occasionally.

This is on a "live" fully loaded 50 GB site, with almost all currently available JR modules running.

Sometimes at the old host, my performance dropped down to the 300 range (even worse when there were rare issues like cron jobs stuck). Since I am not sharing the JR Hosting resources with other users, I should be able to get consistent high speeds, and so far that's what every test shows.

Also, as a test of the conversion server, I converted a 257 MB WMV file in 608.29 seconds.

In addition, I was very pleased to discover I can redirect a domain from Go Daddy, to a stored HTML website folder, and have a working website (which isn't a JR5), running from the JR Hosting server.

An example is http://indiegospelradio.org which is a multipage radio station. It is running from JR hosting and not through profile domain mapping.

Though extremely simple, the procedure I'm using is not supported (so don't try this at home kids - lol).

updated by @ken-rich: 03/25/15 10:17:25PM

Create Radio Station

Using Jamroom


Click http://ctservers.com/business/affiliate/Ken_Rich.html and subscribe to the WHMsonic package.

That get's you the shoutcast server and it's default player.

My friend is checking with Synlabs to see if he can licence their player for the whole server. If not, it will be $34 (one time) for the license. It has a config file where you set the color, logo, share buttons, etc.

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If you want my page layout, I would charge $50 (one time) and set it up for you. That assumes you have the player above (which I shrink to fit - CSS), the graphics, label names, and link URL's for buttons.

I do the meta data for OG scraper, favicon, label and link all buttons, and set background picture. I can also give you an autoplay and non autoplay embed code.

You supply the graphics, or it's an additional $20 to create a logo, OG image, and favicon. There are lot's of free backgrounds online, choose one, or I can give you my royalty free nature shot.

I don't work for Jamroom, I'm not a 3rd party developer, and I'm really busy with my own stuff.

So busy in fact, that I can't give an ETA on completion, and there is no guarantee of support after completion. If you manage to get me at all, I'm not firing up my editor to change buttons for less than $10.

However, I use simple 3 picture buttons with standard links. So if you change your mind (after the fact) on where something should point, you can edit it yourself.

Hope that helps...