Media streaming has grown rapidly and became a powerful vehicle for audio-video broadcasting, teleconferencing, group chat, radio & weather relay station and moreover extended to different level of services. If you’re planning to build  a website for streaming services for broadcasting audio-video media over the internet, you will need a level headed web hosting services who are capable to offer you shoutcast dedicated servers and provide you  direct, fast and secure access to your users without any interruption.

If you wish to install shoutcast on Linux here is the process to install in easy step;

SHOUTcast consists of a client-server model hence you should not run it as root because it can create security issue, instead you should create a shoutcast user:

Follow these steps;
1.) Login to root through SSH on the server.
2.) adduser shoutcast
3.) passwd shoutcast
Login as the new shoutcast user, or you can su to the user.

su shoutcast

Download shoutcast from nullsoft:
1. http://www.shoutcast.com/downloads/sc1-9-2/shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
Lets extract shoutcast:
2. tar -zxvf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
Lets tidy up the directory:
3. rm -rf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
mv shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6 shoutcast
cd shoutcast
Shoutcast has now been installed!

configure shoutcast on following step;

Now edit the configuration file.
pico sc_serv.conf
or you can use vi which I prefer, a bit more advanced to use.
vi sc_serv.conf
You can set some important configureation options. Change these settings in the file:
MaxUser
Password
PortBase
uncomment AdminPassword and set an admin password.

Now going through the settings, you can change them to what you want or you can save and start shoutcast and it will work now.
to save crtl+x (if using pico) or :wq if using vi
Now you can start shoutcast here;

./sc_serv sc_serv.conf