Internet is going to play a big part of this anyway. They are moving their transmitter offsite and instead of forking the money to setup a uhf or microwave connection they are using barix boxes for their STL. So if the internet goes out at either location they're down anyway. I tried talking them away from doing that. But that's what they set their eyes on.
Joe don't knock the Barix, it's a cost effective STL where alternatives are too expensive or it's too far between studio and Tx. Depending on the service available at each end you can get audio throughput which is amazingly good.
Following your posts I must suggest that if the PC's you have available are able to run Vista they are well able to run Rivendell.
Yes it's nice to have a server which has a large HDD but if there is no money to buy a 4TB [ x 2] you can clump together a server with 2 or more of the biggest drives in the fleet in an array. It works and plenty of motherboards will run 4 SATA drives. Obviously the biggest fastest bestest machine becomes the server.
RAM for the server is not that expensive, you can turbo up an older machine with some RAM. MySQL likes RAM.
Whatever you build, make sure you have 100% backup; a copy somewhere you can swing in when the #1 fails. Better have 2, one on site, and one off site.
Any copy which is at a remote facility may be secure, but it can take a week or two to download. Any facility operated by a third party may be convenient for sharing, but is not to be trusted. I have two remote sites where my system is replicated. We use various cloud services for programme sharing news etc and the error / corruption rate is significant. OK for a programme provider to reload material which is delivered well in advance. Not OK if you are planning to use it in real time.
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