Forum Activity for @ken-rich

Create Radio Station

Using Jamroom

For $10 a month (with my friend) you can have a proper hosting account with many sites and the shoutcast radio at a thousand listeners - lol.

You can stream URL's by using the free program Winamp + DSP which is a plugin. Navigate to the URL, and send it up to the DJ port on your Shoutcast server.

Works great but consumes your bandwidth. Not recommend if you are planning to do other things with your Internet at the same time.

I would like to find a programmer who can write a modification to take a Jamroom playlist URL and send it through a shoutcast server. Or, write a program to copy the 128 bit MP3's from the Jamroom database into a folder for streaming. Perhaps with a radio checkbox the admin controls.

That's beyond my abilities, but I do make nice radio pages. I like this one because it fits on a mobile phone and links to whatever you want - http://indiegospel.mobi

Create Radio Station

Using Jamroom

Well, I get that from my friend's server which has a WHMsonic subpanel with Shoutcast. You would upload songs to a folder, and they will stream. You can also connect to the DJ port with a free program and stream up from your computer, even talk live on a mic or do call in shows.

There is a default player, or if you want to get fancy, use whatever you want. I use a HTML5 player I bought from SVNlabs.

There are a thousand places that offer a similar service. What I like about this one, is he doesn't limit or charge extra for more listeners - you can literally have a thousand simultaneously. You get ample space to stream a large library, and can purchase more space if you have some sort of mega library. He gives "phone support" also, which is so much better than writing tickets.

He's had it at $3 monthly, but told me just this morning he's upping it to $5 monthly for those who don't also have a hosting account. He's also considering offering some "ready made" radio station/radio page layouts based on my designs (one time fee).

Full disclosure - this is my affiliate link
http://ctservers.com/business/affiliate/Ken_Rich.html meaning I make 10% on anything you buy there using that as your gateway - but the price is the same to you. WHM SONIC is what you are looking for. Hope that helps.
updated by @ken-rich: 02/19/15 01:39:32PM

Create Radio Station

Using Jamroom

Hi andrusito,

I'm not sure what you are looking for but if you want streaming radio, you can get a set-up like this http://indiegospel.mobi or this http://radio.indiegospel.net for a $5. a month server account, and serve up to a thousand listeners.

I've got the player on my Jamroom http://indiegospel.net

You must load your songs in a server folder, or connect to the DJ port from your computer, with this type of set-up. It's basically a glorified Shoutcast.

How to Separate Items - Include Only Some

Ning To Jamroom

Is that what my ex used on me?

How to Separate Items - Include Only Some

Ning To Jamroom

Hi Michael,

Thanks for that, but it's not really helpful. I understand the quota system, and I am allowing certain quotas access to these different skin layouts via the Profile Tweaks module.

My problem is that the code above brings in likes, tags, and comments simultaneously. I am looking for a way to bring in one or the other, instead of all or nothing.

So for example, if I wanted to bring in only the 'ShareThis" buttons (without the tags and comments), how would I alter the code above?

Or would I simply delete that code and use another? If so, what code would give me the desired outcome?

That's where I'm lost, which makes it hard to build different layouts and give people "choice" with the skin choices in Profile Tweaks.

How to Separate Items - Include Only Some

Ning To Jamroom

I am using Profile Tweaks to give my clients several different layouts. Basically the default profile index includes everything, then I offer "cleaner" versions with less items cluttering the screen.

To fine tune those options, I would like to have a comments section without the tags and sharing. Another version with Sharing but no comments and tags.

The trouble is, I find this code and it seems like my two choices are - all of those things, or none of those things.

How can one control what is brought in and what is not?



updated by @ken-rich: 04/04/15 10:58:43AM

Entry Processes High

Jamroom Hosting

Updated:

Yes, that CPU is worth almost 10 of our old CPU's. It's worth almost 3 of our current ones, going by benchmarks .

So going from 2 CPU's to half a CPU is not a step down from "monstrous" power. Here are the actual numbers:

Current host has 2 of these - [Dual CPU] Intel Xeon L5420 @ 2.50GHz Average CPU Mark 6.610 No of Cores: 4 each (8 cores total), with 8 GB of ram.

I ran the performance test and my network runs about 100 points higher on the JR server, with your half a E5-2680 v2 (4 cores) and 4 GB ram.
updated by @ken-rich: 02/17/15 02:00:28PM

Entry Processes High

Jamroom Hosting

(XEON E5-2680) has 8 cores, we get half or 4 cores. That is important information.

One can look at benchmark tests and get an idea of how much "bang for the buck" one is getting.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2680+%40+2.70GHz

Nice to know when comparing JR hosting, to other offerings. For instance, I believe half of that CPU (4 cores) would still "smoke" both of our CPU's put together, since we are using cheaper CPU's with benchmarks that are way lower.

Sometimes "monsterous" power is "in the eye of the beholder" (subject to bias and inflated by salesmanship).

Benchmarks give a more accurate assessment of what one is actually getting. Therefore, details about the actual hardware being employed is important.

I think such details need to be clearly defined in the documentation. It will work to your advantage I'm sure.
updated by @ken-rich: 02/17/15 10:44:59AM

Entry Processes High

Jamroom Hosting

Hi Brian,

What you are saying makes sense to me - thanks.

BTW - we I'm told we have 2 CPU's (4 cores each), for 8 cores total. So I don't think that we have more processing power, not now that you've told me what you are running with.

If I am understanding correctly, 1 CPU at Jamroom (XEON E5-2680) has 8 cores. I think it's a much higher rated CPU (by comparison to ours) in terms of raw processing power, so that may be at least part of the reason why tests run faster at Jamroom.

The MSQL PDO thing you needed is enabled, so please move me in to Jamroom hosting ASAP.
updated by @ken-rich: 02/17/15 10:15:37AM

Entry Processes High

Jamroom Hosting

He's got it set to 40 now. There was lot's of disagreement over what the number really means, but at least it's doubled now.

In the Jamroom hosting, what is the limit on EP? My understanding is there should be some kind of limit to foil DOS attacks. Also on shared servers, it prevents one site from hogging all the resources from the others.

Am I to understand that Jamroom hosting is not shared, that we get a server all to ourselves, with all of it's resources devoted only to our script?

When your documentation says 4 CPU's, is that actually 4 CPU's, or just 1 CPU with 4 cores?

For instance, I am on a server with 2 CPU's but 8 cores, RAM is 8 GB, my space is 200GB on S4 SSD, and my host is telling me that what I have now in terms of available resources is "monstrous", compared to what Jamroom is offering for the same price.

What I don't understand, is if what he is saying is true, why we are not "smoking" the performance test? He says my limits are wide open, but the script is not utilizing the "monsterous" resources available to it. As if the installation is misconfigured, or not tuned properly to the server!

I've seen it break 1,000 twice, most tests are between 850-950, a few drop to the 300's always because of a temporarily high MSQL reading.
updated by @ken-rich: 02/17/15 08:29:35AM