First off about myself: I'm your typical knows-enough-to-get-by web design CMS flash type guy. Nothing special no real training but if I need to run a control panel I probably can.
What I need: I'm moving an AM station(oldies) to online streaming and need a host for it. The variable here is the only reason I'm moving the station is because a radio show on it which runs 1 hour every weekday needs to expand our audience and all that good stuff. We'll be expanding the show as far as we can hopefully within the next year and on certain days we'd have more listeners due to having higher profile guests on.
However, since we have the stream 3 other shows on the radio station have offered to pay for the costs(we had to get a cable line run to the station in the first place)- presumably they would have a lower listener rate.
The question is what's the best solution here? We don't want to pay for a 2000 slot shoutcast service right off the bat, but we also need one who can rapidly expand our slots as needed, or possibly have one which just charges based on use. When we get up to high volume would it be smarter for us to just lease an unmetered dedicated server (high assumption of 1000 listeners(which is months off) for 3 hours a day running at 128k bit-rate the bandwidth really starts to add up) or a dedicated server that just charges based on usage. The latter may even be cheaper than using the high-priced-slot-based shoutcast stream servers.
I figure someone out there has already done the research can might know an answer to the problem. The key here is flexibility- no point paying $90-300/month for a dedicated server the first month if we're only getting 200 listeners on our show and 50 for the other shows but if we somehow experience a surge in listeners we don't want to be stuck at a low cap.
We looking for a solution for our website. We currently stream about 1.5 TB of videos a month and have about 100 gig of them. We will be opening up our site to allow user uploads, mean that will will also be needing to encode videos.
We are looking at Iwebs Power Servers.
2 x Xeon Quad Core 2.0Ghz
320GB SATA 2
8Gb Ram
10,000GB transfer a month
100mbps link
$240 a month.
We plan on updating the site to run .NET 3.5, this adds $70 month onto the price. Seems like good deal. Can anybody recommend anything better.
For an extra $200 we can upgrade to SCSI. How much will this improve the performance.
Most of our users are in the US and Australia, Iweb servers are located in Montreal Canada. How much will this effect the perfomace of our site.
I have read that some hosts have ffMpeg, Menecoder, FMS3 already installed can andybody point me into the direction of one of these
I have a site going that requires quite a large space/bandwidth host which allows hotlinking/streaming. Currently it's sucking up around 1.3gb space and 50gb/mo, maybe a tad less than that. My budget is low, I've currently been working off free hosts which has been a huge pain.
So basically I need a cheap host with moderate allowances, uptime with a decent speed. But because technically it's just a filehost which allows hotlinking/streaming (maybe even hotlinking protection), I don't need the other jazz to be working.
I saw Brinkster (which doesn't allow streaming, so good thing I didn't buy that) and webhostingpad, which both seem to get terrible reviews here.
Uvault.com does flash streaming media, features unlimited connections, and redundant servers. Has been around for a while and is a Macromedia Alliance Partner but I can’t find any feedback on them anywhere.
We are using Apache 2.2 prefork on Debian GNU/Linux.
Sometimes it happen to us that we have really lot of apache processes (slots) in state "sending reply". This is not freed for several hours. Server status looks like:
The question is how it is possible that some apache process can be locked to one client for several hours. Other clients are being served by free slots, however what if we will have used all the slots and not freed them?
how can i add a domain without spending slots (im limited to 10 domains)? Basicaly i want to add my own domains directly as vhost and do the rest using the panel. I want this to run only on nginx instead of apache.
Approx how many COD4 slots do you think i could get on the following spec server
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz (1066FSB) 80GB Raptor 10,000RPM 2GB DDR2 RAM Linux OS or Windows XP Pro (not sure if I will fork out the extra for windows or not yet)
It's recommended to make thread_concurrency = Number of CPU's x 2. But this is really effective with latest mysql5 versions? [url] Default 10 Range 1-512
Why to set it to 8 (4 cpus), for example, if recommended default value is 10? And why to set such a low value if range is till 512?
Also, how to check assigned value as "show variables;" command omit this value.
I had a program (APF, actually) install its executable file in /usr/local/sbin/, so I went to add that directory to my PATH variable in .bashrc. I'm able to type commands to executables just fine in other directories, but for some reason I keep getting "command not found errors" from bash when I type in the name of the executable (apf), even when starting/restarting new instances of the shell. Here's my current PATH variable in .bashrc - have I overlooked something? # Customize the path directory PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin:
I am writing a rewrite rules using mod_rewrite module. I have the same data repeating all over the rules that I would like to replace with variable and set variable once at the top of rules then use variable in the rest of rules. Then if I need to add another IP address I would just add additional IP address to the variable instead like now need to change several rules.
For example I have IP addresses that I would like to set as a variable.
Now rules are the following (simplified) in httpd.conf:
RewriteEngine Off RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} (192.168.5.20|192.168.7.15|10.10.20.50
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION When triggering the events 'Mail account created' or 'Mail account modified' the returned variable NEW_MAILBOX will always state TRUE regardless of the mailbox option being ticked or not ticked on the 'New mail account' option located on the 'Mail' tab of a subscription.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1: Log in to plesk. 2. Select 'Tools & Settings' 3: Select 'Event Manager' 4: Select 'Add New Event Handler' 5: Select Event 'Mail account updated' 6: Enter in '/usr/bin/php /root/scripts/dbmail/mail_mod.php' to the Command box.
[Code] ....
ACTUAL RESULT
[NEW_MAILBOX] => true
EXPECTED RESULT
[NEW_MAILBOX] => false
ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I submitted this with parallels support and they stated that the variable NEW_MAILBOX will always return as TRUE regardless of if the mailbox option is ticked or not. They also stated the NEW_MAILBOX variable will be true regardless of any action taken on the panel with mail accounts. The actual documentation on this variable is very sparse
Component name/description Old component value New component value Mailbox old_mailbox new_mailbox
We previously had some code that would trigger on this variable and would create a mail account on our mail server with or without a mailbox.
if (!strcmp(getenv('NEW_MAILBOX'),"true") && !strcmp(getenv('OLD_MAILBOX'),"false")){ //Create a mailbox on the external mail service } if (!strcmp(getenv('NEW_MAILBOX'),"false") && !strcmp(getenv('OLD_MAILBOX'),"true")){ //Create a mail forwarder on the external mail service }
At some point this variable has stopped working with newer versions of plesk. Having a variable that is always true regardless of what is done when creating a mail account seems pointless and requesting a new feature that was already there in older versions doesnt seem like something that should be requested on a new feature request.
QUESTION: Is there anyway to get this functionality restored other than requesting it gets re added via [URL] ....
He says he called up the internet company and upgraded his monthly plan to 60 gig or downloading a month, because he loves watching steaming videos(not youtube) im talking about actual movies.
They told him if he downloaded a 700mb movie or if he watched the exact same movie it would use up 700mb
So according to them downloading or streaming uses the same mb.
I found this hard to believe. But i have no wa of proving it.
I am a non-technical business investor looking to find a consultant (ideally from the adult video industry, since they, if anyone, should be experts) who can help me address the problems a company is having with the video production and streaming/progressive process. In short, they film, keyout, and code online virtual spokespeople for thousands of clients and I am told that they have both progressive and streaming video--but it does not always play correctly. I realize there are limitations in the conenction of the end user, and that it may be also be affected by the hosting company--but I want someone who can ell me what this company is doing correctly, and where there are opportunities for improvement.
Im currently running a streaming media (video) site on a p4 3.0 GHz with 2 gigs of ram. I think its a 10mpbs unmetered port. It streams extremly slow, to the point where it lags every second. It does this even though their is only 6 people on, with loads of 200 it just freezes up. What configuration would be able to hold traffic of 200 people constantly. I was on a faster server with hostgator, their dedicated pro but i went through the bandwidth in 5 days.
I will be starting a website featuring my own videos. They will be all flash based. Now I will be having 1 main website, which will be very fast and with its own forums as well. I'll probably go with reliablesite.
Anyhow, what I want to do. Is host flv files on hosts such as dreamhosts, host monster, site5, webhostasp, eleven2, hostgator. As they have > 5TB hosting (yes I know they oversell, but even if I get 75% - its good).
So, if I have lost you, let me explain in more detail.
The page in the reliable host will have links (to 5 files, which the locations are randomised in order with each refresh)..
I've installed H264 Streaming Module for Apache 2 from: h**p://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/Mod-H264-Streaming-Apache-Version2. Replace ** with tt
Loaded the mod in httpd.conf but my streaming of MP4 files don't improve at all. Other file types like: WMV & FLV at high bitrate or large filesize have no problem streaming. Only MP4 files are giving me problems when streaming through JW Flash Player.
I've made 2 test pages, read on:
1) h**p://x264-bb.com/vids/ >>> Replace ** with tt MP4 File hosted on a CDN server. This server hosting my MP4 file which works perfectly fine on any browsers anytime when visited, so this proves that my MP4 file has no problem to be streamed online.
2) h**p://x264-bb.com/vids2/ >>> Replace ** with tt The exact same MP4 File hosted on my server, giving me the headaches!
Problems facing are:
- can't load the streaming MP4 at all on IE7 - can't load on Firefox unless multiple times of refreshing if you get lucky - after working on Firefox, it stops working later - HTTP Pseudo Streaming is not working at all when it works on Firefox
