Actually getting another Dream Host account is on our road map.
At least for someone else on the team...
My experience has been that no matter how inexpensive a new site is
or how good the support may be, every new "business" relationship,
alternate box, server site, adds more admin overhead than you might
expect. So, I would only go that route if running it on our box in SF
doesn't
work.
We have a dual Xeon processor, 100 Megabit connection on our machine
down by the bay and we are the *only* box using that connection and
we are not even close to utilizing that pipe... we could serve 30-50 movies
simultaneously and users will not feel even a pinch of slow down on
port 80., unless they all they all had T1's of course.
But Dreamhost will only offer 10 megabit shared connections...I worry
about overload... i really don't have much experience to base this all on
so I could be all wrong. But when we switched from OLM (10 megabit
socket) to ServePath I am getting 10 times the FTP upload speeds
(as just one example) for e.g. uploading a 50 megabyte movie
to our new box, versus upload the same to the old box, where I would
"go for a walk"
but yes, agreed, a good option to test and
with Code Monster and QT Streaming already installed... that's means
it's maintained by them and not us.. that's a good thing.
Stephen Barncard wrote:
All insights welcome
I don't see any solution on the horizon for our "Rich Media" delivery
troubles where
we are not able to get either a Revolution player OR a web browser
with QT plug
Whoa, all this time I thought you WERE using QT streaming server.
One thing I might suggest - try getting a "Code Monster" account at
Dreamhost.com. Among the many 'goodies' offered is a real Quicktime
streaming server, and you could AT LEAST fiddle with that and see if it
helps. Depending on your bandwidth needs, this might be all you need --
you could get this account for $20/month. At least it's pretty cheap to
try.
If your bandwidth (quantity,n-tier) needs are greater, you should still
contact them.. they DO have pretty good bandwidth policies.
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