Need Flash Media Server

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by doonn, May 17, 2010.

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    hey there..

    I have Flash Chat from tufat.com , installed and integrated with my vbulletin 4 forum, and now i need to have their Audio Video module, which requires me to have Flash Media Server. So i just want some advice from you, that is it ok if I install that on my dedicated server, would that harm my server performance, or anything like that..?

    Here is my server config...

    cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz
    memory: 4gig
    drive: 160gig sata
    OS: centos5.3
    php 5.2.13
    mysql 5.0.90
     
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  2. ~ServerPoint~

    ~ServerPoint~ Banned

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    What else is already installed on your dedicated server?
     
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  3. doonn

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    other thn that i have Xcache, iptables and couple of wordpress blogs...
     
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    I dont think it will harm your server.
    Tufat chat support red5 server? if so, you can install the red5 server and its free too.
     
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    which one is better RED5 or Flash Media Server ?
     
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    FMS is red5 but a modded version
     
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    Either one will work. Agreed. The major difference being price and ease of installation.
    Flash Media Server will cost a small fortune and is relatively easy to install.
    Red5 is free (open source) but is a bit** to install. Once installed, however, other than server there is no further cost.
    I would seriously consider using a dedicated server for the media server because conflicts with IIS or Apache (over ports) makes it hard to run both a web server AND a streaming media server on the same box.
    I run both Flash Media Server AND Red5 on the same windows server 2003 box, but I turn off one when I am demo'ing the other and vice-versa. I also don't run a web server or any other application on that server and I can stream from either to any application designed for them pretty flawlessly.
     
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    You can also try wowza media server 2. Is cheaper than AFMS.

    We run our sites, demos and also provide hosting on multiple servers using all 3: wowza, adobe, red5. From our experience we found the wowza server to be the best solution for reliability and red5 for budget on small servers or vps.
     
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