Dear All As you may or may not know after over 10 years of quality broadcasting www.oldskoolravers.co.uk has temporarily closed its doors. We would like to personally thank all the DJ’s that put in hours and hours of effort to bring you some of the best music around. Thanks, to the guest DJ’s for their time, efforts and commitment to the Oldskool scene. A big thanks to the listeners for tuning in and making it all worthwhile, and finally the admin team for the hard work and dedication behind the scenes to make it all run. The factors behind our temporary closure I am sure will be discussed and expanded upon and turned into urban myths. We obviously did something right with several million hits over the past 2 years alone and huge database of listeners. Recently our long standing service provider was bought out and the new owners decided to relocate the data centre that our server was being hosted at and not offer the same package we were on previously. This meant we had to find new servers to run the many systems required to keep Oldskoolravers afloat. This we managed to secure and after great expense and time in setting up a new server with all new services we swapped over the website to the new server. Unfortunately we have not had the service we were promised and as such have had many problems with the new company. We have tried on countless occasions to resolve this issue and were promised resolution after resolution, we were not alone in having the problems it was affecting many other servers in the same data centre. The last promise made to us assured us after some hardware and software changes at the data centre all issues would be resolved. This has not happened and the improvement was minor and this has not enabled us to provide the quality of service that is required. Oldskoolravers has always been committed to offering a quality service, to ensure this happens we need to resolve our hosting issues and ensure we can offer our usual high standard of stream and quality that people deserve. This will enable us to return to the airwaves where we belong and hopefully get you the DJ’s back playing and the listeners back listening. The sad part is that we were planning on making an announcement and having a closing party and informing everyone with as much notice as we could on what was happening. This however has been hampered and trashed by a minority who have taken great delight in sending private messages to all users over the past few months advertising radio stations. We put some code in place to warn against this happening, but this was ignored and whilst DJ’s were giving time and effort to play the selfish minority sat in the background sending messages other users telling them to tune to another stations. I am sure you would like to thank those people personally. We have recently been accused of attacking one radio station in particular which we can confirm was the radio station that was most involved in poor conduct on our site. I will leave you to draw your own conclusions whether this accusation is true or false ;-}
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