The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
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The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
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Re: The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
#2Nice article, played with Icecast in the past, good to learn about LibreTime which uses it.
Re: The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
#3128 Kbps would amount to 30-40 GB monthly
So, digitalocean gives you ~30 users capacity? I think hetzner offers 1Gbit internet without quota which would serve thousands of users.
Re: The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
#4Take a loot at Hetzner is Traffic is an issue, they offer 20TB for $5. https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
Re: The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
#5With LibreTime it's also possible to stream in Opus and AAC+v2 so you can get decent quality on 48kbit.
Re: The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
#6128 Kbps would amount to 30-40 GB monthly So, digitalocean gives you ~30 users capacity? I think hetzner offers 1Gbit internet without quota which would serve thousands of users.
I always thought that online media services used multicast protocols, that is, after the initial point to point connection all data packets should be transmitted once, then replicated at router level for every subscribed user. If that's the case, 30 users seems a pretty low number since it would translate into maximum 30 concurrent connections while the generated traffic from the server point of view would be just slightly higher than a single stream for a single user. Or maybe carriers bill multicast traffic differently?
Re: The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
#7128 Kbps would amount to 30-40 GB monthly So, digitalocean gives you ~30 users capacity? I think hetzner offers 1Gbit internet without quota which would serve thousands of users.
I always thought that online media services used multicast protocols, that is, after the initial point to point connection all data packets should be transmitted once, then replicated at router level for every subscribed user. If that's the case, 30 users seems a pretty low number since it would translate into maximum 30 concurrent connections while the generated traffic from the server point of view would be just sl…
There's essentially no multicast over the public internet
Re: The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
#8I own and operate Broadcastify.com, which is arguably the largest icecast implementation in the world.
We've been using 100TB.com for our audio streaming infrastructure, which is a softlayer reseller. I've been unable to find anyone else that provides better pricing for bandwidth than they do.
All of our Web infrastructure, provisioning, archiving, etc is spread between AWS and Google Cloud though.
Audio broadcasting on the Internet is indeed an interesting field to be in!
Re: The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
#9I own and operate Broadcastify.com, which is arguably the largest icecast implementation in the world. We've been using 100TB.com for our audio streaming infrastructure, which is a softlayer reseller. I've been unable to find anyone else that provides better pricing for bandwidth than they do. All of our Web infrastructure, provisioning, archiving, etc is spread between AWS and Google Cloud though. Audio broadcasting…
How does 100TB.com beat Hetzner? Their $5 virtual server comes with 2TB whereas Hetzner offers 20TB.
Re: The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
#10Take a loot at Hetzner is Traffic is an issue, they offer 20TB for $5. https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
I can vouch for hetzner as I've been using it without complaint for ~2 years, after moving from scaleway. They're great.