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Posted by torenq, 03-24-2010, 06:25 AM
hello i would need some server configurations for the following kind of site let s say i need to create a live streaming website that permits multiple video-web conferences i would like to know what kind of server config do i need if i have a 2000 users in the same time ? thanks in advance
Posted by ClaudiuPopescu, 03-24-2010, 06:28 AM
Hi, You will need to post a few more details regarding what kind of streaming are you planing to do. Software used, quality, etc. A point that you might overlooked is the internet connection.
Posted by torenq, 03-24-2010, 06:33 AM
i'm new in this ... so i do not now what kind of software is used in this certain situation ... can u recommend some?
Posted by ClaudiuPopescu, 03-24-2010, 06:40 AM
Check this out: http://www.red5.org/
Posted by ignitionservers, 03-24-2010, 08:36 AM
A video-web stream with 2000 simultaneous users would require quite a powerful rig. Simply due to IO requirements and bandwidth requirements. Infact, even if the video stream was at 320kbps (video+audio) for 2000 connections you'd need approx. 80MB/sec. of throughput, that's about 6.4GBps of throughput for a one way transmission. I highly doubt that ONE server can do this You probably need to look at some sort of clustering solution. I don't know anything about that unfortunately, hope someone else can help.
Posted by Crashus, 03-24-2010, 10:13 AM
You will need some cloud-clusters in this case most-likely, some software which can encode\decode stream and push it to your users, you maybe need to checkout collocation costs in this case.