Category: Broadcaster's Lounge
Hi.
I have a question about the way that servers are hosted.
Lets say that you are streaming at 96k, do you just stream to a server in a data senter with a faster internet connection which then streams it to everyone else at 96 k saving your upload speeds? Or do you just host it all yourself?
Its just that on tbrn they have like 15 listeners sometimes streaming at 96k wen some of the hosts only have 512 up...?
On the other hand i kno someone that had 256k up and were streaming at 44k with 2 listeners and they were saying that it was going to have to go down to 32 k.
I hope you can understand this, id idn't really kno how to put it.
Thanks, BEN.
IF you stream to a server, all you need do is provide a 96K stream. When listeners connect to that server, they are use that servers bandwidth, not yours.
Yeah, because I say have a 256K upload speed. So, if I streamed in 24K I would only be able to pull 11 listeners if I hosted my own shoutcast server (96K would only be able to have two listeners). But the reason they said that "it may have to go down to 32K" would be that their internet may be going all wacko and therefore they need to take their upstream down just a tad. Or something of the sort.
In this regard I have another question for all you clever guys:
If I'm going to stream using my own box, in other words, a sort of "temporary" stream using Shoutcast and Winamp, where do I tell people to go and listen to what I have to stream?
If my IP address e.g. is not fixed, what could be a solution?
Or do I rather not stream then?
Thanks much.