Hi, As Andreas and Thomas observe installing red5 on ec2 is simple, and part of the problem of data persistence on ec2 instances is easily addressed by using s3 to store video and then rsyncing the videos from s3 to the ec2 instances. But..
From my perspective there are two serious limitations to red5 on ec2:
1)Bandwith, ec2 has per instance bandwith limits of 250MB/s in/out. Our current application requires 4 times this much bandwith so... We are currently using dynamic round robin DNS to load balance red5 instances, when a given server exceeds a fixed MB/sec threshold we fire up a new instance, sync video content from s3 and add it to the round robin record. This allows us to achieve a scalable red5 flv streaming solution but we have yet to cluster the JVM of each of our ec2 machines. I am closely watching the progress being made on red5/terracotta and hope to start testing red5/terracotta on ec2 soon. 2)Data persistence for changing dynamic content across a group of instances. For more than simple streaming of a fixed # of videos (allow users to upload their own videos though red5 for example) storing video on s3 is difficult if you want the video to be available on multiple ec2 instances. We are testing S3DFS( http://www.openfount.com/blog/s3dfs-for-ec2) which allows S3 to be used as a block device by many ec2 instances. On 7/5/07, Mondain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could you post your solution to the wiki? I just got my EC2 account so I may be playing with this as well. Paul On 7/5/07, thomas hallaran < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yeah , we are doing it... If you want to know details, we can discuss. > Tom > > On 6/29/07, Mel Brands < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm just wondering if anyone's running Red5 on AWS' EC2 service? The > > only downside is that if EC2 goes down, you lose all of your data but > > maybe this can be mitigated by backing up all the flv files over to S3 > > as soon as they're recorded... Anyway, just wondering if anyone has > > gone through this process. > > > > Thanks, > > > > m. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Red5 mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Red5 mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org > > -- It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. - Voltaire _______________________________________________ Red5 mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org
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