Icecast - Feb 2014 - IceCast on host server

Hopefully you have the opportunity to get me in the right direction. 
For a small group, around 10 people, we are looking for setting up IceCast on a
central server.The idea is that each of us will use this service to enable live
internet broadcasts to our listeners:
Microphone --> encoder --> INTERNET --> Server + IceCast -->
INTERNET --> Listener
As I understand for setting up ourselves our own Windows or Linux based server:
this should be possible with the tools provided at www.icecast.org/download.php.
But the idea is actually to use the server of our Provider as host server:     
- either in the cloud solution (only applicable for Java/PHP applications),     
- or in the shared webhosting platform (only applicable for PHP applications)For
that we should have a JAVA or PHP based IceCast application.
Now my understanding is that IceCast from www.icecast.org/download.php cannot
support this.Is that understanding correct and what is your advice for realizing
our initiative?
I am much obliged if you can give us the right direction.
Best regards,
Maarten van den SteenNetherlands 		 	   		  
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On 02/03/2014 12:05 PM, Maarten S wrote:
> Hopefully you have the opportunity to get me in the right direction. 
>
> For a small group, around 10 people, we are looking for setting up
> IceCast on a central server.
> The idea is that each of us will use this service to enable live
> internet broadcasts to our listeners:
>
> Microphone --> encoder --> INTERNET -->* Server + IceCast *-->
> INTERNET --> Listener
Yes, that's a typical setup.

> As I understand for setting up ourselves our own Windows or Linux
> based server: this should be possible with the tools provided
> at www.icecast.org/download.php
<http://www.icecast.org/download.php>.
>
> But the idea is actually to use the server of our Provider as host
> server: 
>      - either in the cloud solution (only applicable for Java/PHP
> applications), 
>      - or in the shared webhosting platform (only applicable for PHP
> applications)
> For that we should have a JAVA or PHP based IceCast application. 
>
> Now my understanding is that IceCast from www.icecast.org/download.php
> <http://www.icecast.org/download.php.> cannot support this.
> Is that understanding correct and what is your advice for realizing
> our initiative?
>
Icecast can not run on a pure web hosting environment. full stop.

VPS servers are cheap and suitable (Icecast needs bandwidth, everything
else is secondary). I'd recommend exploring that. Make sure streaming is
allowed in the ToS for offers you evaluate.

Cheers

Thomas