Shangrla Radio

Now Officially FREE of BT!!

The Lord — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:56:25 +0000

Yes at last we have gotten rid of our biggest pain and cause of so many losses of service. I really am so relieved now its anazing.

Anyway we are now with SKY and I hope to god that this is the last move I will have to make.

Lets all keep our fingers crossed

Binning BT at last

The Lord — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:00:28 +0000

Ok I have now binned BT – hopefully this will be the last time I have to do major moves on the station.

I will be swapping to Sky broadband on the 8th of March and swapping servers today. There may be some juddering and a short loss of the website while I do this. The Second Life and other grid streams should not be effected.

All the best

Radio Back Up

The Lord — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:10:10 +0000

Well after 2 weeks of auto DJ and loop the stream is now back up again and I am diligently continuing the rebuild. I seem to have been locked out of the ChatZone so I cannot change the stream back for the Chat Radio. However, I have installed a small webplayer in the Sidebar that should autoplay and you can also use the “Pop out” player as normal.

One day my troubles will be a thing of the past lol

Server Maintenance Update

The Lord — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:57:08 +0000

During the recent server maintenance; a problem with the main hard drive was found. This means that our playlists are somewhat restricted until the new drive is in place. Please be patient with me while I attempt to install and configure the new drive as quickly as possible. I am also working on trying to reinstate the request facility too.

Thanks

~Lord

Major Server maintenance over the next week!

The Lord — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:57:29 +0000

I will be carrying out server maintenance over the next week which includes changing the Router and possibly the URL’s for the station. It should be almost transparent for the most part with the exception of some periods of silence. I promise I will be as quick as I can so you can continue to... [Continue Reading]

One Small Step and One Giant leap

The Lord — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:46:11 +0000

Tonight at 21:00GMT its Parker’s Addictions and Other Vices. This week its One Giant Leap… if you missed last weeks “One Small Step” then you can hear it again at 19:00 GMT on Shangrla Radio or use the listen again feature

Have a blast listening to the hottest Station on the Internet

Addictions and other Vices- Use Your Nails!

Parker — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:31:49 +0000

Jenns Hair Salon Moves Timeslot

The Lord — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:53:06 +0000

The popular Jenns Hair Salon is moving times as of tonight! The show will be aired at 21:00 BST 15:00 Central on Tuesdays as of today. If you missed this message don’t worry this weeks program can be caught on Listen Again at http://176.32.230.16/shangrlaradio.com

Final transfer/upgrade of Server to new host

The Lord — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:52:06 +0000

Hey folks – Shangrla Radio may possibly go off air for a couple of hours as some configurations have to be done that cannot be done while the stream is up and running – As soon as everything is complete we will be back on air again –

At least this time its planned

Our Stream Provider Has Gone Bust!! ~ Our Solution

The Lord — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:50:57 +0000

Hey folks – well after what seems an eternity of being messed around by our Stream provider and by BT (British Telecom) the final axe has fallen on our Radio Stream Provider (Twisterhost). Here is the email I received from them yesterday and the future for them doesn’t look good…

“Hi, Everyone!

I wish this update would give you some good news, but, sadly, it’s not all good news.

First thing is that everyone needs to download a FULL backup of your site immediately. There is a reason for this request, though.

Over the last few months, we have been struggling to pay the monthly server bill, getting money from various sources to “keep the lights on”. Sadly, that is coming to an end, I think. Our current PayPal is far, far short of what the server bill is…By almost $93.00.

Earlier today, I received notice from our provider that the server will be placed on suspended status today. This means that ALL sites we host will be offline starting tomorrow. Hence, it’s important that you download a full backup tonight. This means your HTML/PHP files, your email, your mySQL databases…everything that you want to keep.

However, there is a silver lining here and at the risk of someone yelling that I’m trying to steal customers away, I am pondering starting up a web hosting business on August 1st with HostGator, where the rates will be far more reasonable in regards to the server bills.

Those that can afford to wait until August 1st through any downtime will be rewarded for their patience: Their sites will be transferable to the new location at the same rate they paid to Twisterhost. Those that paid on different plans will be given full credit for unused time, so that there will be no loss of investment.

I know some folks are on recurring payments. Keep those active for now. When I can get a separate PayPal for “The Lair”, you’ll be informed and once that’s done, you can switch over the recurring payments to that.

Those with Shoutcast streams will need to be patient while I find out if we can even do Shoutcast or not. I know some sites have loyal listeners and I would ask you to let those listeners know of the downtime and that every effort will be made to get those up ASAP. Those with Shoutcast streams are asked to keep in contact with me to see if streaming audio will be doable. There will be no streaming video for the time being, though due to bandwidth limitations.

It’s gonna be a bumpy ride for the next week or so, but, stay loyal and patient.

Thanks,”

Well after reading that I had to react fairly quickly – so I spent the best part of 24 hours setting up our own streaming server on our own hosting account on our own servers. WE changed over to the new stream in the early hours of this morning and hopefully listeners have not even noticed that we are now running on a new stream and that the website has moved hosts as well .

If you do find any glitches please let me know asap as this was a very quick fix to a rather major problem.

All the best