I’ve started moving the Ghost Dance audio & video downloads over onto my servers.

That should take a great strain off Gary’s hosting and his bandwidth consumption, and thus his hosting providers should not automatically lock the account and take the site down each time the site trips over its alloted bandwidth usage.

For now I’ve moved the Member’s Only download of the ‘Stop The World’ album, but next up will be moving the MPG and AVI videos. I will probably take advantage of the move to rework the videos to a common MPG format and upload them to my Quicktime streaming server

Also, most of the videos have found their way onto youtube so I might even embed the youtube copies directly into the video downloads page, saving most people the trouble of having to download the large file… (I’ll still make the MPGs available should anyone actually want to download them though)

www.ghostdance.co.uk is back up and running

As of this morning it looks like the Ghost Dance site is temporarily out of action.

It looks like the site has gone over its monthly bandwidth allowance with its hosting company – www.easily.co.uk – and will likely be unavailable until either Gary Marx sees it and contacts Easily, or we roll over into October and the allowance is reset.

The problem seems to be down to the site’s Audio and Video downloads sections getting a good hammering…

I’m helping Gary find alternate hosting solutions for the downloadable media.

This would be my first post then… Right.

In case you haven’t already gathered, this site will act as a status indicator for all the sites I run… Over time it is my intention that the site will be the first port of call for members and users of these sites, should there be any technical issues with any of them.

It should help keep things a bit more focused for you all and make it easier to find news, should there be any outages or problems.

For anyone who might also check our hosting company’s RSS news feeds, we use the following servers:

File Servers: thisbuds, pirates, spacer
Web Server: pirates
Email Server: homiemail-sub3
MySQL Server: shaggy

If you see any problems mentioned regarding those servers, that will probably be what is effecting Heartland too.

The Ghost Dance site has a totally seperate hosting company, and if they have issues its more often than not related to the site’s bandwidth usage (mainly caused by Mr. Marx’s generosity in providing all those lovely downloads!)

Enjoy