Lindsay, you keep saying its our Connection, maybe its time you look for another server host to try if its your current one that you use.... Mine also drops daily as well only for seconds then reconnects. Just enough to drop the listeners and piss them off...
Try one server on another host company Lindsay and see if you have the same results or if its your current Server host... Most company's will give you a 30 day money back guarantee so nothing to lose and move some of the feeds that have this issue (like mine) over to it to experiment...
Brian,
We're using Amazon EC2 with over 17 servers now. "trying" a new Web host isn't like copying a few HTML files over and giving it a 30 day try out. We spent almost 6 months last year evaluating and preparing for our infrastructure upgrades. I'm not trying to get on a high horse here, but listen man, we know what we're doing here and trust me that RadioReference isn't a single server-upload-your-stuff-via-ftp and away you go. This isn't amateur hour hobby time, this is a major web business operation.
Just so you understand the complexity and size of RR.... Last months stats:
* 3700th largest Web site in the *world* by web traffic
* served 32TB of outgoing bandwidth.
* provisioned and used 8TB of storage for NFS, backups, database, and audio archives
* Max concurrent sessions served: 3200
* 14 million recorded page views
* 760,000 unique visitors
Technologies used:
* Apache
* PHP
* Mysql (master, slave, backup)
* haproxy
* icecast / streamripper
* Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic IPs,
* Vbulletin, MediaWiki, Photopost, Vbulletin Mobile
* SOAP / XML / JSON web services
* NFS / hyperic systems management
* ..and a zillion other things
In addition, we had over 1300+ listeners on one single feed last night - and that feed stayed up an running during an earthquake (I believe it went down for a power outage during the actual earthquake but came up when power was restored).
Folks, listen, last mile broadband internet connections aren't designed for 24 hour a day 7 day a week uninterrupted connectivity. Unless you have a business class network connection into your home (T-1, leased line, SDSL etc) you are going to face DSL modems resyncing and cable modems and network congestion, power blips, computer issues. 99% of the time the issue is NOT with our infrastructure. I'm not taking an arrogant position here, and I'm not saying that our infrastructure is perfect, but I'm telling you from experience that unless we're reporting an outage or problem on our end, it is most likely on your end.