Migrate from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS End of Life

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is approaching end-of-life in April 2025, after this date new installations on Ubuntu 20.04 will be blocked but will continue allowing upgrades. As of the 2.13.12 and 2.14.3 releases, official support for 24.04 is now available on all release branches. This is great timing for customers who need to move from Ubuntu […]

Why Icecast KH is our Recommended Server

In the world of audio streaming, choosing the right server is crucial for ensuring reliability, security, and flexibility. Icecast KH is our recommended server for audio streaming due to it being open source, supporting more features, and potential security risks. Security Recent events have highlighted the importance of security in streaming servers. The leak of […]

It’s Time to Upgrade Your Operating System

For many of our customers it is time to upgrade their servers operating system. Debian 10 and CentOS 7 have recently hit EOL and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will soon follow. And support for new releases with such as Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04, CentOS Stream 9 is now available. What is EOL? End of Life (EOL) […]

Moving to Ubuntu LTS 24.04

With our latest releases 2.13.13 and 2.14.4 official support for Ubuntu LTS 24.04 has been added. For customers wanting to move to this version of Ubuntu we have a set of instructions here to assist you. Please note support for Ubuntu 24.04 is currently only available on our latest releases versions 2.13.13 & 2.14.4 Upgrading […]

Automatic Encoding on Cloud Video

What is Automatic Encoding? The Automatic Encoding feature will encode customers uploaded media content and recordings to allow for consistent playback. The encoding is configurable to various quality presets but will default to 30 fps and 48 kHz audio, as such our standard recommendation is 48 kHz audio and 30 fps for all encoders as […]

MediaCP 2.13.13 Release Notes

MediaCP 2.13.13 is a minor upgrade with a number of bug fixes and some minor improvements. In this version Ubuntu 18 is officially deprecated and we’ve added compatibility for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Whats new in MediaCP 2.13? Read more about What’s new in MediaCP 2.13. Notices Release notes Notable Improvements Bug Fixes

User Roles on Cloud Video

What are User Roles? Customers on Business plans or higher have access to the User Roles feature allowing administrators to define how their customers can use their video platform. Administrators can set the permissions in any combination to limit or allow features for customers with the role. This can be used for anything from stopping […]

MediaCP 2.14.4 Release Notes

MediaCP 2.14.4 includes several bug fixes to improve stability and brings version 2.14 closer to release on the stable release tier. This version is now available on the Latest Release Tier. Whats new in MediaCP 2.14? Read more about What’s new in MediaCP 2.14. Notices Improvements Bug Fixes

How to Setup CentOS 7 Vault Repositories

CentOS 7 does not meet our System Requirements as it has reached EOL After CentOS 7 reached EOL last month we have seen many CentOS 7 repositories be shutdown including the official repositories and datacentre repositories. This has left those still running CentOS 7 with yum (CentOS 7 Package Manager) non-functional. Though we suggest all […]

MediaCP 2.13.12 Release Notes

MediaCP 2.13.12 is a minor upgrade with further improvements and bug fixes. In this version Ubuntu 18 is officially deprecated and we’ve added compatibility for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Whats new in MediaCP 2.13? Read more about What’s new in MediaCP 2.13. Notices Release notes Notable Improvements Bug Fixes