Frank, On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 4:22 PM Frank Christel <[email protected]> wrote:
> In our consideration of Rivendell, a question arose as to whether there > might be a cloud version. Something like RivenCloud (a tip ‘o the hat to > John Penovich) or Valinor (the Undying Lands, a nod to Tolkien). > If you have the cloud, I will gladly work with you to bring up a test instance. I think we could make it work. We would have to test for reliability. all the best, drew > > RCS its marketing a cloud-based automation system, primarily for disaster > recovery: > > https://www.rcsworks.com/press-releases/cloud-automation-reveal/ > > Why couldn’t instances of Rivendell running on Amazon AWS become a > station’s primary automation system? No hardware to maintain and the system > would be just as accessible as a box in the next room, given the ease of > VNC connections. > > From the transmitter site’s perspective, everything is already in some > cloud. That’s whether the STL connection is via microwave, fiber, or DSL. > RivenCloud could send a high-quality stream directly to the transmitter as > easily as it would simultaneously feed a MP3/AAC version to the station’s > streaming provider. > > Now, talk like this strikes terror into the hearts of red-blooded > engineers. What happens when the ‘net connection goes down on Christmas Eve > when there’s nary an IT person from one’s university or cloud provider to > be found? How do we deal with inevitable backhoe fades? And how could we > possibly threaten cranky machines by brandishing a bright orange mallet in > front of it, which sometimes seems to work, psychologically at least. (Need > to be careful as machines become sentient; threatening didn’t work so well > with HAL.) > > Might in-the-cloud Rivendell instances be doable? Is this already being > done? > > Frank Christel > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > -- Enjoy the *Paradise Island Cam* playing *Bahamian Or Nuttin* - https://www.paradiseislandcam.com/
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