Hey everyone!
Wasn't too sure if this was the right section to post in so forgive me if I'm out.
Long story short I've helping a friend setup quite a large project. He's basically going to be hosting an event and wants it to be hosted online. There's going to be potentially thousands of viewers (the Facebook fan page has almost a 100,000 followers) so we're expecting a lot of traffic.
Anyway I've been looking into solutions for him and just wanted a second opinion. There's quite a few great sites that offer too host the event and there really easy to set up. For example this site sort out everything for you and make it really easy to set up. you just start the broadcast and use a program like xsplit or adobe flash media live, enter in the streaming information and before you know it you're broadcasting. The only issue is the packages they offer sky rocket up to thousands of pounds as soon as you mention anything over a 1000 viewers.
So I just wanted to know if anyone has set up a media streaming server/site before and how the experience went...
We can't use ustream because the event is going to be pay per view, and ustream doesn't allow embedding if you use their ppv service.
Renting a private server with unlimited bandwidth and such seems a lot cheaper. Do you think this would work? And then I'd just have to install a program like adobe flash media server and it'd be up. But would one server be enough to serve 1000s of users?
So yeah any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Wasn't too sure if this was the right section to post in so forgive me if I'm out.
Long story short I've helping a friend setup quite a large project. He's basically going to be hosting an event and wants it to be hosted online. There's going to be potentially thousands of viewers (the Facebook fan page has almost a 100,000 followers) so we're expecting a lot of traffic.
Anyway I've been looking into solutions for him and just wanted a second opinion. There's quite a few great sites that offer too host the event and there really easy to set up. For example this site sort out everything for you and make it really easy to set up. you just start the broadcast and use a program like xsplit or adobe flash media live, enter in the streaming information and before you know it you're broadcasting. The only issue is the packages they offer sky rocket up to thousands of pounds as soon as you mention anything over a 1000 viewers.
So I just wanted to know if anyone has set up a media streaming server/site before and how the experience went...
We can't use ustream because the event is going to be pay per view, and ustream doesn't allow embedding if you use their ppv service.
Renting a private server with unlimited bandwidth and such seems a lot cheaper. Do you think this would work? And then I'd just have to install a program like adobe flash media server and it'd be up. But would one server be enough to serve 1000s of users?
So yeah any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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