OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

[Sivakatirswami]

Actually getting another Dream Host account is on our road map.
At least for someone else on the team...

My experience has been that no matter how inexpensive a new site is
or how good the support may be, every new "business" relationship,
alternate box, server  site, adds more admin overhead than you might
expect. So, I would only go that route if running it on our box in SF 
doesn't
work.

We have a dual Xeon processor, 100 Megabit connection on our machine
down by the bay and we are the *only* box using that connection and
we are not even close to utilizing that pipe... we could serve 30-50 movies
simultaneously and users will not feel even a pinch of slow down on
port 80., unless they all they all had T1's of course.

But Dreamhost will only offer 10 megabit shared connections...I worry
about overload... i really don't have much experience to base this all on
so I could be all wrong. But  when we switched from OLM (10 megabit
socket) to ServePath I am getting 10 times the FTP upload speeds
(as just one example)  for e.g. uploading a 50 megabyte movie
to our new box, versus upload the same to the old box, where I would
"go for a walk"

but yes, agreed, a good option to test and
with Code Monster and QT Streaming already installed... that's means
it's maintained by them and not us.. that's a good thing.


Stephen Barncard wrote:
>> All insights welcome
>>
>> I don't see any solution on the horizon for our "Rich Media" delivery 
>> troubles where
>> we are not able to get either a Revolution player OR a web browser 
>> with QT plug
> 
> Whoa, all this time I thought you WERE using QT streaming server.
> 
> One thing I might suggest - try getting a "Code Monster" account at 
> Dreamhost.com. Among the many 'goodies' offered is a real Quicktime 
> streaming server, and you could AT LEAST fiddle with that and see if it 
> helps. Depending on your bandwidth needs, this might be all you need -- 
> you could get this account for $20/month. At least it's pretty cheap to 
> try.
> 
> If your bandwidth (quantity,n-tier) needs are greater, you should still 
> contact them.. they DO have pretty good bandwidth policies.

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