September 5, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Some Labor Day Weekend Sounds For Kicking It
The sounds are always there mixed and flowing here on Snakeice’s House of Beats but sometimes I like to interupt how I have my set mix with the backend categories and rules I hae to set the flow manually for a few hours. I chose some and then had ny rules curate and place some […] Continue reading
August 24, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Monday Evening Mellow
Let’s kick back with some mellow music this Monday riding melodies into the week.
Artist like Molly Ringwald, Grover Washington Jr., Xscape, John Coltrane and others will take you there with a wide range of genres woven from the decades of r… Continue reading
August 21, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Doing Late Night Maintenance
Didn’t plan on doing maintenance but while moving some networking equipment around I disconnected some items so took advantage and updated the Fedora Linux music relay server for IceCast and ShoutCast plus the W2025 that stacks the music, runs the database and streams, provides the encoders that the relay servers stream. Backup and streaming and […] Continue reading
July 23, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Both XCP-ng 8.3 Servers in Rack
Doesn’t look pretty but I now have both!of the XCP-ng servers I built, fine tuned and stress tested in my rack. I’ll post specs later. Now my C7000 is retired I just have to clean it up and find it … Continue reading Continue reading
July 18, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updated the Music Servers
I updated my W2025 Data Center music server and IceCast and ShoutCast music relay servers. I had already setup some upbeat music and then I’ll wind down to something a bit mellower and then let the algorithm take over with my database about 4am PST.
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July 5, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Impromptu Maintenance Now Some Old School Hip Hop
Wasn’t planning on doing much today on the system but saw some issues and had to clear the routers and then decided to update the OS of all of my servers that touched the music server including my web server. Updated my new W2025 Data Center virus definitions as that was all it needed, updated […] Continue reading
June 28, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Switched to New Music Server Updated Relay Server
I moved to my new virtual machine on my new XCP-ng virtualization servers I built and I also took my music relay server to the latest version of OS. I am moved off of my c7000 blade server with this update and can shut down this final blade that had my music, playlist, database etc […] Continue reading
June 27, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Moved to Backup Music Relay Server
Moved to my backup music server while I update my normal music server to the latest version of Fedora version 44. The backup server is already at Fedora 44. You may be prompted for another ssl certificate though it’s the same as the other server. This is all in preparation of going to my new […] Continue reading
June 12, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Chilled Friday Night Sounds
Starting a nice mix of chilled sounds to kick back to on a Saturday night. Real heavy on the old school.
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March 29, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Mellowing it out LAte Night\Early Morning
Depending on how you look at it I’m taking down the tempo but not the passion to some slow jams type songs for a few hours here in the late night or very early morning on the Pacific West Coast of North America,Northern California to be exact. Kicking mellow with a nice mixed genre or […] Continue reading