Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Dedicated Server : Celeron as media server

[Dalgar]

I do video streaming on my site, and am for a cheap bandwidth solution for a video-hosting server. I have been looking into http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=501872 and the $49 pricetag on the Celeron 1.8 looks attractive to me.

My site doesn't use more than the 1000 gb at the moment, but I'm looking for a solution that will be easily extended beyond that poing. This Hivelocity server does that as well.

However, I have a concern. How well is a celeron 1.8 going to hold up? Is the poor processor performance going to limit my bandwidth? At what level would you estimate that happening?

This looks like relatively cheap bandwidth and storage space for my needs, but I need to know how much that processor speed is going to limit me. Thanks.

[GigabitONE]

actually it will depend on your concurrent user traffic, resource and process

[XF-Chan]

The celeron will do just fine. Just make sure you have enough bandwidth.

[Dalgar]

Originally Posted by GigabitONE

actually it will depend on your concurrent user traffic, resource and process

If I am streaming video, how quickly will I hit this ceiling? I'm just trying to figure out how much a Celeron can handle as a media streaming server. Obviously it wouldn't be able to take full advantage of a 100 mb/s connection.

I'm trying to get a general idea for the point at which the bandwidth becomes less of a bottleneck than the processor/ram for a file server site. That way I can tell if this really is a good deal or not.

[24shells]

If I was you would have went with Celeron 2.53 Ghz or Pentium 2.4 Ghz.

[Neosurge]

If you are using under 1000gb already this may be a nice idea for a transitional server (especially at this pricing) until you can afford something bigger. 512mb of ram may be your first performance holdup on this machine, maybe as needed they can give you a ram upgrade.

[XF-Chan]

Like I said, the Celeron is fine. Live streaming only uses pure bandwidth and some memory. On-demand streaming will be taxing disk I/O, so for that you need a fast disk subsystem. I doubt you will be transcoding from a live source (TV broadcast) with your server in a Datacenter anyway, so basically the Celeron is the least of your worries.