If you had $3,000 for a new Icecast2 streaming server, what would you buy? What box, hard drives, LAN cards, etc.? The project I am involved with is helping community groups in UK webcast live public meetings and events. Democaster also archives Icecast streams for on-demand streaming or download. We are focused on high accessibility and low cost. See: http://dowire.org/wiki/Democaster Because we archive webcasts, we might deploy two servers working together. Your thoughts? Steven Clift Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift@publicus.net Join DoWire: http://dowire.org E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.org
Hello! Hey, guy, you just need 300$ to buy pII-500 and stream 25 stream's up to 500 users :) SC> If you had $3,000 for a new Icecast2 streaming server, what would you SC> buy? SC> What box, hard drives, LAN cards, etc.? SC> The project I am involved with is helping community groups in UK webcast SC> live public meetings and events. Democaster also archives Icecast SC> streams for on-demand streaming or download. We are focused on high SC> accessibility and low cost. See: http://dowire.org/wiki/Democaster SC> Because we archive webcasts, we might deploy two servers working SC> together. Your thoughts? -- Kuzik V.Andrew (www)kuzik.org.ua,(gsm)380675329075,(icq)345641182 ???? ???, ? ???????, ??? ??????. :) ?? ??? ??????? ????????? ????, ??? ??? ????????????? ?????? **? ??????? ?? ?????????, ? ?????? ???????????? ??????, ??????????? ??????????.
Yeah, I'll agree with that - CPU use is minimal on a dedicated machine so low spec server will do just fine. Our stats here show peaks at around 60-70 listeners and as you can see the CPU use is almost none existent - high quality bandwidth is where the money should be spent. Oh and lots of disk space if you intend archiving the streams. Our stats are at: http://stats.tianet.co.uk/ if interested Cheers, Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew V. Kuzik" <kuzik@cad.kiev.ua> To: "Steven Clift" <slc@publicus.net> Cc: <icecast@xiph.org> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [Icecast] Server question - if you had ... Hello! Hey, guy, you just need 300$ to buy pII-500 and stream 25 stream's up to 500 users :) SC> If you had $3,000 for a new Icecast2 streaming server, what would you SC> buy? SC> What box, hard drives, LAN cards, etc.? SC> The project I am involved with is helping community groups in UK webcast SC> live public meetings and events. Democaster also archives Icecast SC> streams for on-demand streaming or download. We are focused on high SC> accessibility and low cost. See: http://dowire.org/wiki/Democaster SC> Because we archive webcasts, we might deploy two servers working SC> together. Your thoughts? -- Kuzik V.Andrew (www)kuzik.org.ua,(gsm)380675329075,(icq)345641182 ???? ???, ? ???????, ??? ??????. :) ?? ??? ??????? ????????? ????, ??? ??? ????????????? ?????? **? ??????? ?? ?????????, ? ?????? ???????????? ??????, ??????????? ??????????. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------> _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >
On Nov 21, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Steven Clift wrote:> > If you had $3,000 for a new Icecast2 streaming server, what would you > buy? > > What box, hard drives, LAN cards, etc.?Spend that money on more bandwidth! It takes very little CPU to serve out streams. But on to the hardware subject - the new X2100 AMD Opteron server from Sun is a great deal. /dale
Hi all, Ok, how about this one. If you had $300 to spend on bandwidth, where would you buy it? I'm looking for a good dedicated bandwidth deal. Cheers, KJ Dale Ghent wrote:> On Nov 21, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Steven Clift wrote: > >> >> If you had $3,000 for a new Icecast2 streaming server, what would you >> buy? >> >> What box, hard drives, LAN cards, etc.? > > > Spend that money on more bandwidth! It takes very little CPU to serve > out streams. > > But on to the hardware subject - the new X2100 AMD Opteron server > from Sun is a great deal. > > /dale > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >