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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: mr932 on January 06, 2014, 12:58:23 PM

Title: Whats needed for Video hosting? Need VPS Advice
Post by: mr932 on January 06, 2014, 12:58:23 PM
I plan on having an unmeatered VPS at about 40MBPS, about 30GB HDD.

But will 1 core and 512 ram with 1GB vram be good?

Planning on using http://rethinkvps.com/vpshosting.php

Planning on hosting about 60 videos at a time, maybe 3-5 viewing concurrently would I be okay?
Title: Re: Whats needed for Video hosting? Need VPS Advice
Post by: Allan on January 06, 2014, 01:02:40 PM
Why would you post this in the linux forum? I'll move it, but please pay attention. Thank you.
Title: Re: Whats needed for Video hosting? Need VPS Advice
Post by: mr932 on January 06, 2014, 01:03:46 PM
I plan on hosting it on Centos?
Title: Re: Whats needed for Video hosting? Need VPS Advice
Post by: mr932 on January 06, 2014, 01:04:47 PM
I thought people whom use linux and have experience with servers could help out
Title: Re: Whats needed for Video hosting? Need VPS Advice
Post by: Geek-9pm on January 06, 2014, 03:46:33 PM
It is not clear if you are doing something in your home or at a business location.
Why not just rent the service you need? Is this a long term project?

Do you have any equipment you can use for a test?
Is this for use in a Local Ara Network?
Is this for use in a school?
Is this for video streaming over the internet?

Some 50 full length videos would be about 50 GB of disk space. An 80 GB drive should be enough for the job. I suppose you are using AVI format or MP4.

Memory: Yes, 512 MB might work, but better  to go with 2 GB.
A single core Pentium or Celeron CPU over 1 GHZ can stream about 4 feeds at once over a Ethernet connection.
Title: Re: Whats needed for Video hosting? Need VPS Advice
Post by: camerongray on January 06, 2014, 05:17:53 PM
How do you plan on streaming the video?  A 512mb VPS will certainly go a long way and that connection should be fast enough.

The other benefit with being on a VPS is that you can easily scale up to one of the higher RAM/more core packages without having to reinstall your OS.etc.