Tech Info

Information on this page is intended for the Tech Team.

Email Accounts

STAR's emails are managed via admin.google.com/standrewsradio.com
STAR has a G Suite legacy account (i.e. created before December 2012), allowing the creation of unlimited free accounts, each with 15GB of storage.
- We started using G Suite around May 2008 (citation needed)
Email addresses for committee members should follow [email protected].
There are also multiple groups, e.g. news@, music@, programming@, and hello@. Committee members can be added to groups to receive emails sent to the group. Emails cannot be sent from a group address.
Both users and groups may have aliases, e.g. bo@ redirects to manager@.
The invalid user account, *@, will catch any emails sent to non-existent addresses within our domain. This is useful for unlocking old STAR pages connected to long-departed committee members.

STAR also owns standrewsradio.co.uk; it should simply redirect to the main site.
sta.radio is STAR's custom URL shortener, which is hosted at Heroku. The source code for the shortener is on GitHub.
Domains are managed by Rachel Hughes, Union Design & Marketing Manager ([email protected])
The rapid.standrewsradio.com subdomain was associated with RapidSwitch; STAR moved from RapidSwitch to DigitalOcean in 2019, so no rapid. URLs should now be in use.

studio.standrewsradio.com: the version of the Buzzbox displayed in the studio, showing listener counter and help section.
listen.standrewsradio.com: a separate version of the Buzzbox including a stream player. Appears to have once been part of a larger legacy website.
buzzbox.standrewsradio.com: the listen. subdomain without the STAR logo at the top.
help.standrewsradio.com: contains the help section, which is also shown within the studio. subdomain.
stream.standrewsradio.com: the subdomain used for #Stream URLs.
archive.standrewsradio.com: you are here.
~~status.standrewsradio.com: website status (subdomain created 5th Feb 2020)~~ Removed in May 2021 as the provider stopped supporting custom domains on their free plan.
manage.standrewsradio.com: .svg version of 2012 Gorilla Joe logo.
- ~~manage.standrewsradio.com/grafana~~: graph of listener stats (Grafana removed 5th Feb 2020 due to unreliability and a planned move to Google Analytics).
- manage.standrewsradio.com/icecast: global server stats, and list of mount points.
- manage.standrewsradio.com/netdata: extensive server stats.

Podcast Recorder: shell script that records, stores and cleans up archived podcasts.
ic2ga: Java programme that forwards Icecast statistics to Google Analytics.
Stream Status: PHP page that checks if the stream is currently silent.