As stated by Ken, and previously by The Team.. ... these third party stream hosts don't appreciate using their bandwidth, expecially if they are revenue producing. It is certainly unfriendly to piggyback, a bit unethical, and may even be illegal in some instances. Stream hosting, site and server monitoring and maintainence is expensive, and we are very fortunate to have a donated IceCast host. otherwise we couldn't pull this project along... Doug C, Chris C, and Cutty provide most of the 'behind the scenes' server, domain and any licensing expense for some scripts, and media, and Ken, and others keep the site perking along with script updates etc.... and this is small potatoes compared to the Radio Reference Group (Broadcastify).
There is a simple solution. Many encoders can stream to multiple servers.. multiple incidences of an encoder like BUTT can run, to several servers.. Some like SECaster can stream to multiple with one instance... many NWRORG stream providers point multiple streams... hardly notice it's going on.,.. we know one provider who has 6 running out of his cave, and who knows about Ken, Doug, many others... no biggie.