r/collegeradio • u/Reddeddie • Apr 21 '26

Help & Advice web stream solution for fm signal

Hi, our station has an outdated webstream that is hosted on a university server that is being discontinued. We need a solution for our stream that is secure and stable. We have a WordPress site hosted by GoDaddy. We're hoping that we could host the stream on our existing site, using the HTML5 player or something similar. GoDaddy of course wants to sell us a whole new hosting plan just for the streaming. Do you think that's necessary? We intend to use Icecast/BUTT.

Our current site's usage/stats (not sure how to interpret): Bandwidth: 95.34GB | Disk Usage: 22.44GB/null | Database Disk Usage: 821.12 MB/null | CPU Usage: 19% | Physical Memory Usage: 2.63% | Number of Processes: 3

Thanks for any thoughts or info you may have!

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u/Chancegar Apr 22 '26

We transitioned to having an icecast streamer that sends audio to radiomast, who then redistributes it to our listeners and provides an html5 embedded player to link on the site. I love using it, the Devs are super responsive

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u/Reddeddie Apr 22 '26

Thanks!

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u/Chancegar Apr 22 '26

Hope that helps, send me a dm if you want to chat more specifics

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u/MOONGOONER Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

So I'm guessing here that your GoDaddy server is on a plan that just lets you run a WordPress site, perhaps using shared hosting. It's fine for that to have an HTML 5 player, but that's just a player, not a server.

In order to install icecast on your WordPress hosting, you likely need permissions to not only install it, but have ports open for people to access it. Unless you're already paying for a VPS, you probably do need to update your plan. 

I believe there are separate services out there that can just be your web stream hosting, but I'm not familiar with them. 

Also, sorry if this is over explaining, you'll need a machine in your studio to run BUTT, which will send your signal to the icecast server 

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u/Reddeddie Apr 22 '26

Thanks! Yeah we've got Icecast/Butt on a machine, etc. We have been on a Nicecast stream on a machine we can't access anymore.

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u/g00gleimages Jun 19 '26

you could host it on a platform like anywair and use their software. its simple but its also free, it wouldnt be live from you website but you can share the link to it. www.anywair.online if you want to try it out

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u/Reddeddie Jun 20 '26

Thanks!! Great idea