Hi there.

Well, forget *****. I almost signed up with them until reading all the bad PR. I'm glad I found out.

I'm now looking into rackshack, but have never dealt with a dedicated "empty" server b4. I'm using it strictly for real audio clips. Previously when using regular hosting, they have a "real audio" folder in the root or in the WWW directory, and I put the .rm files in there. Each hosting company has it's own "string" that they give me to use. All it is is the location of the .rm file, so when typed as a URL, the song opens up.

When getting a dedicated server, is all that available, or do I have to set it up?

Thank you so much for your help! This is totally foreign to me.

I'm not sure if they had an actual real server license or if you were just http streaming the files, but basically real.com offers the server. From what I can remember, it is free per so many files, (15-25-ish), then you'd have to pay for a license, which from what I can remember, isn't all that inexpensive.

Alternatively, you can use http streaming, or another streaming server to do the job.

Also being discussed here: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?&threadid=18339

If you consider 25k as not expensive for the real server licence, Chicken is right :)

Check out the thread about the Darwin project, it is interesting.


Cedric