Category Archives: Asheville Live

Upcoming Events Around the Mountains

Published in Asheville Live on February 8, 2010

Bluegrass Music Jam
Thu. Feb 04, 10
Marion, NC
Celtic Adventures
Fri. Feb 05, 10 – Sun. Feb 07, 10
Asheville, NC
Old Fort Mountain Music
Fri. Feb 05, 10
Old Fort, NC
FENCE Hunter Pace
Sun. Feb 07, 10
Tryon, NC

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… And So It Begins (Again)

Published in Asheville Live on January 29, 2010

Back Yard Snow Man - Asheville NC

Well, here comes the snow again. Schools dismissed early, everyone around me has left and you can bet the grocery stores are packed and running out of milk and bread.

Hopefully, my power will stay on this time….

Right now it is pretty foggy, so there isn’t much to see when the cameras zoom, but you can see the flakes fall when it is zoomed all the way out. The fog should clear up once it really gets underway, so keep checking back for better views.

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No Video? Clear Your Cache!

Published in Asheville Live on January 28, 2010

Just a quick note to say that since we’ve moved the video streaming host offsite , we’ve had to change the Flash file that served up the video. To make things easy, we changed the way it looks, too. If you can’t see any video, check to see if you’re looking at the old file or the new file. Your browser can cache the file so it doesn’t have to download it again. The new file looks like this:

New Live Cam Viewer

The old one looks like this:

Old Live Cam Viewer

If you’re seeing the blue and white file with no video, then you need to clear your browser’s cache to get the new one. How you do this depends on your browser, but you can follow this link to figure it out:

http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser’s-Cache

It’s VERY IMPORTANT that you do not have AshevilleLiveCam.com open in a browser window or tab when you are clearing your cache. Your browser will not clear the cached files from sites that it is currently displaying.

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Bandwidth Issues (Hopefully) Resolved

Published in Asheville Live on January 28, 2010

New Design Live Cam Footer

It happens all the time. Something is happening downtown, word gets out and AshevilleLiveCam.com gets flooded with viewers attempting to get the low-down and see it for themselves. Inevitably, when that has happened, the video feeds would slow to a crawl as all the streams jockeyed for position, with some being left out in the cold without any video at all.

Rest assured, we have heard your laments and we have taken action! Streaming multiple live feeds to the internet is no easy task, and it is not inexpensive. Over the years, we’ve done everything we could to make the site more enjoyable and more reliable. I’m working on a post describing the long history of this site, in all its incarnations. Interesting reading for sure, but not very relevant here. What is relevant is the latest step we have taken to make sure every person who wants to see the live views can do so.

The real problem was lack of bandwidth. Even though we have a pretty good connection to the internet by Asheville standards, during high-traffic periods, it would simply be overwhelmed. A while back, we moved the website itself off of our own servers onto the internet “cloud” to make it more reliable, but we were still serving the internet streams from our own data center located on the top floor of the BB&T building. We resisted offloading the video streams to an external host for many reasons, price being the biggest factor.

However, a new day has dawned for AshevilleLiveCam.com as we have finally set up a streaming server on an external host, in the hopes that we can provide a better viewing experience for all our visitors, be they locals or out-of-towners. Just in time for the next batch of snow! So to all our loyal AshevilleLiveCam viewers, ENJOY!

P.S. – That’s not the only change afoot. We’re also working on an all new site design (the header image above is a little preview for you) and on bigger, better video streams including the return of everyone’s favorite SkyCam! Keep an eye out in the next few weeks for big changes.

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Haiti Emergency Disaster Relief Contribution Agencies

Published in Asheville Live on January 18, 2010
They are all over the internet, organizations wanting money for the Haiti Disaster Relief, but how do you know they are legit?

We have compiled a list of a few organizations we know that are legit and doing a great job of assisting with the disaster relief efforts.

How you can help? Give to one of these organizations below. They will use your money to help with the long relief work that is ahead for this small Caribbean Nation.

In addition to providing emergency relief, these organizations are providing the following aid to those in need:
Providing Basic Needs:

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Record Snow Brings Record Traffic!

Published in Asheville Live on December 18, 2009

Back Yard Snow Man - Asheville NCA new high water mark has been set for the site traffic! On Friday December 18, when the snow started pounding us, AshevilleLiveCam.com more than doubled our previous record for traffic in a single day! I had expected a spike in traffic, but this blew me away. As always, AshevilleLiveCam.com thanks you all for your support. We had visitors from 57 different countries, from Canada, Germany and the UK to Australia and New Zealand.

I would have liked to have made some updates to the site over the weekend, with pics and such, but unfortunately yours truly was one of the 67,000 or so without power and completely snowed in. It was a crazy weekend, and I still count myself as part of that ever-dwindling number, as I still have no power. Hopefully it will be restored today and I and my dogs can move back in to my own home-sweet-home.

Above is a pic from my place, and some more are below.

My Car Covered In Snow - Asheville NCAbove: My car.

My Fireplace - First Time for Everything - Asheville NCAbove: first time I’ve ever used this fireplace, for now my only source of heat.

Back Yard Fun in the Snow - Asheville NCAbove: fun in the snow

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Snowy Day in Asheville!

Published in Asheville Live on December 18, 2009

Snowy Day in Asheville! The cams are still a bit blurry this morning with all the fog, but that should clear up later this morning. Even with the fog, though, we are being treated to some wonderful scenery as the first of an expected 2 days of snow falls over Asheville.

Snow days are always huge days for AshevilleLiveCam.com’s web traffic, as native Ashevillians, expatriots and fans check in from all over the world to see the mountains and the downtown area blanketed in white. So if you’re trying to see the cams and can’t get them to come up, just keep trying (refresh the page). Eventually you’ll get through, and it will be well worth it.

While you’re here, it wouldn’t hurt to have a look at some of our sponsors and help us pay for the bandwidth, so be sure to have a look around the site and click some links.

HAPPY SNOW DAY!

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