James Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Situation: Your on the air and your website suddenly goes offline for the rest of your shift, do you bother staying streaming for the regulars or do you go offline until your sites up? I have to say websites are the backbone of the stream, they inform people and navigate people to your site. Your thoughts? Studiio - All-In-One Radio Communication Platform SMS | Phone Calls | Social Media | Content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkemr Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 I have a back up site http://www.mancsuk.com/ so i just give out that addy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m2m Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Much will depend on whether your station is listed on iTunes or Windows Media. If it is, then the vast majority of your listeners may not necessarily access your stream via your website. In any case - it is adviseable (in most instances) to continue broadcasting - as listeners will soon drift elsewhere if they try to access your station - only to find it off-air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnie Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 I have a back up site http://www.mancsuk.com/ so i just give out that addy But they're on the same server jk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkemr Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Good point lmao never even thought of that :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaronsnet Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Many stations are listed in many other directories, or directly access a station through Winamp, etc. Plus...there may be listeners still tuned in. Disabling a stream while a website is down doesn't make much sense to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THREETEN RADIO Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 I agree with above posts, stream regardless of site online or not. I have had listeners find my radio before finding my website, probably found me listed elsewhere like on shoutcast.com/winamp as aaronsnet said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkey Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 If you have a solid listener base i dont see how your website going down for a little while would effect that.Your regular listeners will most probably have your station bookmarked in their players anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotme Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 I have mirrored webservers 2,500 miles apart. I can't risk being down. DNS also mirrored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpazzRadio Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 My stream is on a dedicated server. My website is on a generic hosting company. If my site is down my listeners can still access the stream through ITunes / WMP / a few other sites we are listed with SpazzRadio.com Home of Absolute Rockz, Absolute Spazz, Always HOT Country, and Absolute Hitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chq Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 this has happened to me before but keep on rolling because we have listen links on our myspace, facebook etc so our listeners are always able to tune in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exozito Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I'll keep the station running. If both the site and the stream are down, the listeners might think that the radio station has closed down permanently. Having the stream on while the site is down would at least let the listeners know for sure that only the site itself is having technical difficulties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazin 97 Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 I would definately keep the stream up because only about half of my listeners go to my website or even know about it anyways and plus I wouldn't want them to think the station closed down like the guy above me said. Just in case my webhosts ever suddenly close down for good or my site is down fir a while my station has a backup site at http://blazin97.proradioserver.com. But the backup site is now defuct for some reason & I'm too lazy to fix it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKIye Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 In general the content of a website runs on an other server, unless everything is managed at the same server ... so when the website is down the stream software is still online .. and these days there are that many 3rd party websites who distribute streams (shoutcast, RoKu and lost of others) that people very often login to a stream at a 3rd party provider of streams Notice also that these days tons of media players are alive and kicking :-) who makes it possible to rip streams ... so if your stream is also into the playlist directory from that type of media player such as Nexus and many others .. people are always able to login. Situation: Your on the air and your website suddenly goes offline for the rest of your shift, do you bother staying streaming for the regulars or do you go offline until your sites up? Visit and listen @ BW ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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