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Shoutcast Reseller Hosting Now Available!

We have just released our all new Shoutcast Reseller Hosting services. Now you too can run a Shoutcast hosting company like all the other companies on the internet that offer Shoutcast servers. And since Shoutcast hosting is in high demand you can be very successful with your new company if you play your cards right. [More ...]

Holiday Radio Taken Off-line

Since its now officially 2009 we have taken the holiday radio service off-line until next year, final stats indicated that we reached 21,744 listeners since November 20 when this service was put online. Thanks to all who tuned in, I hope our holiday radio station was able to brighten your holiday spirits a little and make your holiday more enjoyable.

Holiday Radio

We have setup a new Holiday Radio server for the enjoyment of our website users. This station will remain available all through the holidays. If you have any questions please let us know. Also if you would like to request new music to be played on this server please tell us on the forums.

Server DNS issues resolved

It seems there were some problems with our network that made the server appear offline at times for some of our clients websites as well as our own site when in fast the server was online. After trying to find the reasoning behind this problem for many hours we have finally located and repaired this error. It seems our DNS servers for ns1.jaywebdesigns.com and ns2.jaywebdesigns.com (our primary backup DNS) was incorrectly configured and affected our load balancing. This error has been resolved and now all websites across our network should work properly again, while we are not sure exactly why this has happened we do believe it was due to a recent update with our cron system. Basically what has happened is that some ISPs and DNS servers could not resolve some of our clients websites or our billing website located at client.jwnmedia.com. The error returned was a 404 server not found error when trying to view our network using an ISP or server that did not update their DNS information as often as required. Now there should be no more problems like this, if you notice such problems please report them to webmaster@jaywebdesigns.com.

Obama Elected President!

Obama was elected president of the United States at 11pm on 11/04/2008. This I feel is great news since I voted for him myself. I feel his campaign was well run, while both McCain and Obama had demonstrated positives and negatives for this country, I personally feel Obama would be much better serving the middle class residents (like myself), as well as get our country out of the growing deficit. There are many other reasons I chose Obama in my vote, but I am not going to go deeply into politics. I am just happy to announce its now official.

For those of you who voted for McCain, I cannot say anything bad. He also ran a good campaign and he had many great ideas to improve the country. I am not trying to start a war, you can post your comments here or in the forums but keep it clean.

Make Halloween Safe & Fun

On behalf of the dedicated staff of JWN Media I would like to wish you and your family a safe and happy halloween. Ensure you check all your childrens candy before allowing them to eat it, if going out at night, bring a flashlight and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW YOUR CHILDREN TO EAT GOLD COIN CANDY! This candy contains chemicals that can make your child ill or even cause death. Currently, reports of affected candy of the foil wrapped coins from Mexico and China can be found all around the internet. While this may be a hoax its better to be safe than sorry. Please simply discard any candy you are not too sure of.

Unexpected Server Outtages!

We experienced a batch of unexpected downtime today, none of which we had direct control over. Below is a listing of this downtime and the reasons behind the outtages.

2:15am - 4:36am
A very powerful DOS attack was made on the "Core" router entering our datacenter, this attack caused our website as well as the websites and servers of everyone else in our Holly datacenter to intermittently go offline during the time listed above. This issue was resolved as quickly as possible.

12:39pm - 7:22pm
The main provider of bandwidth to our datacenter had an equipment failure. Turns out our network is located on this provider and we too use them as our primary ISP. We had no control at all over this event as it was a problem at the end of the ISP itself.

We are looking into hosting our network in 2 seperate datacenters for redundency and to ensure problems like these do not occur again and cripple JWN Media and our clients websites.

Client Management System Integration Complete!

We have just completed integrating the new Client System (Billing System) into our website. Upon visiting the new client management system you will notice our images displayed as well as a live help box so clients can request help from a member of staff from anywhere within this new system. We hope these new additions help to make our services easier to use.

Advertising On Free Hosting

We are thinking of whether to place forced advertisements on our free hosting accounts to help generate extra income to cost the increasing costs of keeping our free hosting service online. If these ads are implemented free clients will start seeing forced advertisements on their web pages by the beginning of next month. If you would like to suggest alternate means of collecting revenue from free clients please post your comments below.

Email Problems Solved!

We were having problems with email not getting out on both JWN1 and JWN2 since the huge move. I am happy to announce these problems have been fixed. It seems that when JWN2 was put online I forgot to add a Reverse DNS entry so email to over protective email servers like MSN/AOL/Hotmail and a few others were simply being rejected. Now JWN2 has JWN2.Jaywebdesigns.com as a DNS entry and email is now being routed to all email servers across the internet correctly.

Upon adding a reverse DNS entry to JWN2 we noted another problem with email from JWN1. Since the reverse DNS address was conflicting with our other servers. The reverse DNS address for JWN1 used to be mail.jaywebdesigns.com, as most of our clients know their MX records contain mail.domain.com as the address to send and recieve their email. Because of this email to jaywebdesigns.com was being routed to JWN1 and then deleted. This posed as a problem for our website and for any website we are hosting on JWN2 with a subdomain such as user.jaywebdesigns.com. To correct this error we changed the reverse DNS entry on JWN1 to Jaywebdesigns.com.

Once again, all email is functioning as it should. Sorry for the problems this may have caused.