[BlueOnyx:11508] Re: Offtopic: How to host a busy podcast

[Klein Joachim]

Hy Hans!

I have a customer who hosts a Site with pictures from a local community.
For now about 600.000 images in different sizes.
The Site is about 180GB big.
The system makes about 250-300GB traffic per month.
The whole traffic is crowing, but the system is running very stable and
doesn´t make any troubles. The actual load is really small and
the system is ready for much more traffice than now.

The infrastructe behind:
2x FSC RX100 S7 with an installed Aventurine Cluster for HA
(each System) 1 Xeon CPU, 8GB Ram, 2x 750GB Sata HD, 2 Lan Interface (1 
Internet, 1 Replication)

If I calculate your traffic with 5000*150MB then you will get about 
750GB per Month.
If you take some Dual CPU-Server with 16GB and some SAS-Drive you will 
serve this
traffic without any problems.
If you have any questions you can write me a mail.
Joachim Klein


Am 10.10.2012 13:05, schrieb Hans Draaisma - Netvictory B.V.:
> Hello All,
>
> Can anyone help me with the following and contact me offlist if so..
>
> We need to host a podcast and the customer expects a fair amount of listeners/downloaders. Bandwidth is not really a problem I think but since this podcast is not commercially profitable we need to keep the costs reasonable.
>
> The things we know
>
> 1. Filesize is around 150MB per podcast and a new release is monthly.
> 2. They expect somewhere between 500 and 5000 downloads in the first month and more thereafter.
> 3 The customer already has 1 server with us serving sites and the "podcast server" will be another. Traffic is based on the 95% percentile/ Mbits rule.
>
> The thing I don't know yet and important to the whole picture.
> -The retention time of the old episodes.
>
>
> Do I need somekind of distribution-network to do this like Amazon or Akamai to make sure we will be able to provide the rest of our customers with good speeds and traffic. In other words. How does one host a busy podcast the best way.
>
>
> Thanks for your time in advance.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Hans Draaisma
> Netvictory B.V.
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