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Updating Relay Server Switching to Backup Brief Music Stream Interruptions

I am updating music relay server up several versions of OS from Fedora 34 to Fedora 38 and moving the streams over to a backup VM\server already at Fedora 38. I have to make sure certificates are in place for SSL change streams from music server to this server and some items in the router […]

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Updating Memory on Relay Streaming Server\VM

I am increasing the memory on my relay server on my XCP-Ng hypervisor I use to stream the music, and this will require a reboot. While the system reboots no one will be able to connect with the music streams though the songs will continue playing and the website will not go down. The increased […]

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Brief Update of Virtual Infrastructure

I performed some updates of my virtual environment that caused me to briefly take down my IceCast and ShoutCast relays and then my websites. Once again more data here : https://dhoytt.com/mainblog/2021/07/updated-xcp-ng-from-8-1-to-8-2/.

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Moving Music Stream Relays to New Server

Moving my music streaming relays of IceCast and ShoutCast to a new server that’s dedicated and virtual. I was always planning on making this move but some memory leaks by another program has made it more critical. This is always my goal to make operations more modular. I can also clone this virtuals system for […]

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Back Streaming and Road Map for Music Server

I have been back up and streaming for over 25 minutes and everything looks good. I have also been redoing my entire infrastructure which of course means the music streaming server will be updated and switched over. Currently I have updated the Snakeice House of Beats system to W2019 Data Center 16 core including moving […]

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Changed Icecast Relay to Another System

I am retiring one of my systems that is using some energy for processes that don’t require a lot of system resources and one of the things it did was run my Icecast relays. I switched the Icecast relays to one of my virtual systems and will have a backup for them ready on another […]

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Upgrades Galore

Tonight I updated the OS of my workstations, virtual servers,  physical servers, streaming software SAM Broadcasting from Spacial Audio and WordPress. My I started with my workstations and then my virtual servers including my Centos 7 web server that I run my blog on. Then moved on to update my streaming media server which is […]

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Music Server Back Streaming Music after Updates

Well what just started off as a W2012 r2 security patch update ending up being a bit more. I ended up updating not only the server where I process the music, run the streaming application with it’s database and ShoutCast relays but also my IceCast relay which is Centos 7. When I saw the new […]

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