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Centova Cast v3 => General discussion => Topic started by: lilmike on July 11, 2013, 08:49:46 pm

Title: recommendation on a dedicated server
Post by: lilmike on July 11, 2013, 08:49:46 pm

Hi,
I am working on setting up a streaming radio hosting business with my friend, and was looking at purchasing a dedicated server.
However, as the knowledge base article says, more auto dj venders do not make publicly available benchmarks for CPU speeds. So in that affect, does anyone have any recommendations to the best CPU to get for hosting 10 or more possibly all auto dj enabled streams from the following site:
https://www.wholesaleinternet.net/dedicated/

Note that I am probably only interested in the first 4 or 5, as the rest, since I plan to upgrade hd, bandwidth, etc, will get a little pricy just to start out.
Thanks,
-Michael.

Title: Re: recommendation on a dedicated server
Post by: lilmike on July 13, 2013, 07:35:56 pm

*bump*
Anyone have an idea?
Thanks.

Title: Re: recommendation on a dedicated server
Post by: lilmike on July 16, 2013, 01:27:36 pm

*bump2*
Anyone there? :P.
-Michael.

Title: Re: recommendation on a dedicated server
Post by: mrdebian on October 23, 2013, 08:19:05 pm

Any Quad core will be sufficient.
I've got a single quad core with 8GB of RAM and 2 x SATA drives on RAID 1 and been able to push about 5TB of data per month with 30 radio stations without any problem.

A reliable hosting provider with excellent network is vital.

Title: Re: recommendation on a dedicated server
Post by: GroovinMind on October 24, 2013, 10:22:30 am

judging by their prices I would stay away from wholesaleinternet.  Quality service is not cheap.

Expect to pay $100+ for a quality dedicated machine with a quality network.

Title: Re: recommendation on a dedicated server
Post by: Dr Bunsen on October 25, 2013, 12:48:58 pm

This may be stating the obvious but the quality and amount of io and bandwidth available to the host are more important to Centovacast than CPU in my opinion. The bit rate at which you stream will determine your requirement for both as well as the number of simultaneous streams and listeners you can sustain of course...