Lets run this thread to figure out what works best for the internet radio from the server side.
Cloud, Shared hosting, Virtual private server, Dedicated server, old PC in a garage, Mac Mini attached to a wall?
So far I tryed Airtime on Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), running a micro instance under their Free Tier.
Found a Ubuntu Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that fits under the free tier, and installed all the components and Airtime, 1.8.2 RC3 at that time.
Long story short, it didn't work well: as the CPU power is granted to the micro instance in short bursts, 24/7 broadcast was not feasible - the liquidsoap process was always short of CPU power and the sound stream interrupted constantly.
This time as we got some financing, I'll be targeting a dedicated server with a 3GHz processor. We'll see how many listeners it can handle.
So, what about you, guys?
Cloud, Shared hosting, Virtual private server, Dedicated server, old PC in a garage, Mac Mini attached to a wall?
So far I tryed Airtime on Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), running a micro instance under their Free Tier.
Found a Ubuntu Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that fits under the free tier, and installed all the components and Airtime, 1.8.2 RC3 at that time.
Long story short, it didn't work well: as the CPU power is granted to the micro instance in short bursts, 24/7 broadcast was not feasible - the liquidsoap process was always short of CPU power and the sound stream interrupted constantly.
This time as we got some financing, I'll be targeting a dedicated server with a 3GHz processor. We'll see how many listeners it can handle.
So, what about you, guys?