WRAJ Internet Radio will soon be one-to-one with new sister site Vidgle (at vidgle.com) by the beginning of the summer. According to company president Anthony Zaragoza, WRAJRadio.com will be moving down the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles,  getting a new home right in the same room that Vidgle is housed. “We are very excited about this announcement. It will share marketing ideas for both sites.” With this move, visitors on the WRAJ Internet Radio website will be able to watch videos on the station website without going to the Vidgle website. Also, the WRAJ Internet Radio Photo Gallery will be shared with the Vidgle portal, which will also expand the possibility of commenting of the pictures. Currently, there are discussions if the myWRAJ portal should be removed off the site to avoid confusion to typical users; myWRAJ is the current forum system used on the WRAJ Internet Radio website.
“WRAJ Internet Radio already reaches around a million unique users each month, while Vidgle is climbing up the ladder with nearly 4,000 hits in April alone.”

We have looked into the logs about the trouble we had. It turns out that there was a DDNS issue with our router that caused the issue. We are looking into an alternative method so that it can be resolved automatically the next time when it happens.

Everything has been resolved from what appeared as a system crash on Thursday evening. Maria O’Connell, community and relations director, notified users at 8:45pm EST that there was a system problem involving with the site’s PHP core, which generates most of the pages on this site. The result of the crash was because there were many people on the site causing many executions of the PHP core. “This problem is pretty common with PHP,” said Anthony Zaragoza. “Even Facebook, the popular social networking website, uses the same PHP cores and scripts as we do and they also have the same problem that we had today from time to time.”

What caused most of the execution problems was with the advertisements. We successfully rebooted the servers and software and put the site to sleep mode until we resolved the issue. Sleep mode is a special feature programmed in the site to stop all PHP executions for upgrades, maintenance, or backing up. “It took us around two hours to resolve the issue,” said Anthony Zaragoza. “The site would start running smoothly then it will start displaying internal server error messages. With those messages, we then knew where the problem lied since our end we got the complete error message that can’t be displayed for guest users. Then after the fifth time of fixing errors we finally got everything working again and it turned out that there were to many executions being performed by over a hundred multiple users.”

“It is a good sign that many people are accessing the site, and we will perform any upgrades to handle more users at one time,” Anthony added. The last site crash happened in April 2006 which lasted for about 4 days because the administrators were unsure the actual cause of the problem was and Zaragoza refused to open the site up again before the issue was resolved.

The Medium speed stream, also was known as 96k for its bitrate, has been removed. “The server still exists but it will be removed soon by December 1st, it depends if someone access it,” said Anthony Zaragoza, general manger of WRAJ Internet Radio. “By Wednesday when you start the 96K stream, you will hear the announcement that this stream will be removed followed by instructions before the stream is launched.”

The third streaming server is being removed after a major budget cut for WRAJ Internet Radio that was announced today. “We are spending more money then what the station is actually getting,” said Anthony Zaragoza. In August 2007, WRAJ Internet Radio purchased nearly $500 of services, equipment, and on-air programming. Jenthony Enterprises, Inc., the parent company of WRAJ Internet Radio, is cutting the budget by half. “We also want to save up money to launch a second stream while getting new equipment.” It was added that the listeners shouldn’t notice a difference and nothing should be interfered on-air.

WRAJ Internet Radio is getting a “ready” signal from gereral manager Anthony Zaragoza as Noel passes by eastern Long Island on Saturday. In which the “ready” signal means we have done various tests and cleanup in our studios in case of a flood. However, the storm is expected to cause downed power lines which could be a problem for us broadcasting. “Winds are expected to be between 40-60mph with heavy rain,” said Anthony Zaragoza. So, there might be buffering issues when listening, and possibly a long period of dead air because of a disconnection from our ISP.

If anything comes up, we will post it in this blog.

Anthony Zaragoza announced Thursday that the month of October had the most listeners since the Live365 crash of summer 2005. “We’ve been in the aftermath of the Live365’s crashes since the summer of 2005 which caused nearly 80% of lost of audience, the biggest lost of listeners in a single quarter,” said Anthony Zaragoza. “We’ve had a bad reputation towards some of the audience since summer 2005 because of the many problems that lied in Live365’s hands, and now we are glad that this era is starting to fade away.”

WRAJ Internet Radio left Live365 in January 2006 and June 2006 (by the contract and agreement that was signed in January 2005).

There was a 5.6 magnitude earthquake Tuesday night at around 11:04PM EST in San Jose, California, in which wrajradio.com was able to survive the quake. The site servers were located about two miles west from the epicenter of the quake. “Everything went smoothly,” said Anthony Zaragoza. “We reported no downtime and there were no reports of power failures.”

There was a major blackout in San Francisco today that caused many websites to go down. However, our data center, near San Francisco, that hosts our website was not affected. There was a moment of two minutes that our database went down. Everything should be back to normal!

Our stream was not affected since our data center for the stream is in New York and Chicago.

Our parent company, Jenthony Enterprises, Inc., is expecting to upgrade its 100 MPS network to a 1000 MPS network within the next month. Some of the computers are still on a 10MPS network, since the computer is not often used. The upgrade was called for due to many collisions in the network by the many computers on the network.

Within the next month, most of the computers, which will need it, will have their network cards upgraded to a 1000MPS ethernet card. And most of the CAT5 cables which runs throughout the office will need to be replaced to a CAT6 line to fully experience the upgrade In about 2 years from now, there is going to be more computers in our studio since we are planning to add more channels. And we will be installing a new server to backup every single thing over the network. (Anthony Zaragoza)

The upgrade is expected to be completed by August.

Please ignore the last post about Stream Changes. Unluckily, I was speaking ahead of myself. The changes won’t happen for another few days, hopefully during the weekend. The streams we will be offering will include a 128K stream, 96K, and 24K.