Hello sir.. i want to install streaming server ... can u please help me what should i get?? i mean should i get normal hosting account or Dedicated or VPS??? i will stream videos LIVE.. With streaming server around 5000 people will watch at 600 kbps bitrate.. and i want bandwitdh to unmetered.. Can u please help me which one should i buy ??? i want the Cheapest and the BEST LOL .. Hope any1 is selling unmetered.. and it should be cheap.. thanks..
You need a dedicated server for sure, check out hivelocity.net, they have some good prices and they also offer unmetered bandwith
If you are talking about all these people connecting at once, you're going to need more than an unmetered connection. You'll need to get yourself some dedicated multi-GB lines for that amount of bandwidth and more than a single server - more like a cluster of them. You'll save some bandwidth if you can find a way to multicast the video but that isn't a cheap option either. Hope you have extremely deep pockets. If it isn't "all at once" then you'll need to work out average usage to get some idea of how much bandwidth you'll need at a single moment. Even if the account is "unmetered" there will be other factors at play such as.. 1. Connection speed of network connection. Unmetered accounts generally come with a fixed port speed - 10mbps, 100mbps, 1000mbps being the most common. Although it's unmetered, there is a physical limit to how much traffic you can shift at any one time and over a period of time 2. Contention. You may have a "dedicated" 10mbps port, but the switch you're connected to will ultimately share a backbone connection to another switch as well as the switches themselves having a maximum transfer speed. Over the backbone and you'll be competing for bandwidth with other users. If all the switches/routers are connected with 100mbps lines (even if the are using link aggregation), you could have 10 48-port switches with an aggregate transfer of 4800mbps (max) attempting to connect over 100mbps of available physical connections. Before someone points out that most hosts are using gigabit switches - that isn't the case. I'm in the datacentre a lot where there a lots of hosting companies, and I don't see than many gigabit switches being used. At some point, all traffic will converge on a small number of ports and there will always be an ultimate maximum physical capacity available. 3. QoS. When you're given an unmetered line there's a good chance the hosts traffic prioritization will place your traffic on the lowest priority. That means that other traffic, with higher priorities, will get preferential flows over your traffic. I'm not saying you'll never be able to connect at 10mbps or whatever port speed you pay for, but there will always be physical limits to what you get and can use. What you need to do is work out what your average and maximum transfer rates need to be and then decide whether unmetered (over of a fixed connection) or a transfer limit but over a faster connection is what would be most suitable. My initial opinion is that a transfer limit but over a faster connection might be the most suitable.
Why do I get the feeling that the videos are of young women and their toys if you catch my meaning? If so, you also need to be up front with any host. While many of them officially state that they allow legal adult content, they have unofficial policies that they do not host adult streaming sites. I lease boxes to such a provider and the guy can go on at some length on how many times he's been booted even though he's been very up front with what he's doing. (He actually does some of the presentations at the trade show conventions on the topic of becoming a content provider and dealing with server issues.)
Thanks Very much for the Info.. i think i never able to make such thing :S.. need lots of $$$..But anyways Thanks
What are u thinking Its False.. im thinking To stream Football Streams.. altho im doing it Now and getting Lots of people to watch.. Thanks for ur reply...Hope i will get throw this
American football or what the rest of the world calls football? That may be worse actually unless you have the rights to do so. If anything, you need to be looking for offshore hosting as at least here in the States, the legal department of the NFL goes after sites like that. Best wishes, -drmike
Check out www.10tb.com They've got some great deals on really highbandwidth servers (nice hardware at that). And they're hosted on the softlayer network. I'm pretty sure they also offer unmeterered services, but they're pricey.
I believe you will need to have dedicated server instead. thats not easy task if you will have a lot of people downloading and up[loading files at the same time
You need 2cpu server and minimum 4 GB ram, and and one direct node, for unmetered it will expensive and also you will get 10 Mbps conection only. although server requierd for live video it means you need minimum 100 mbps or 1000 mbps connection.
Thats very well explained by Ron Brown. You would definitely need a good Dedicated Server.A server with Dual Quad core processor should be able to handle such huge traffic.Talking about the bandwidth then,though webhosts offer unmetered bandwidth,but there is a speed limit set so though you pay a fixed amount for the bandwidth,your users might face a delay in page loads.It would be better if you opt for metered bandwidth with the dedicated server plan.