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[woolrang]

hi ,
i am hosting a you tube kind of site on LAN for about 300 users max. using the site simultaneously.maximum streaming rate is 200kBps/user. hosted data will be about 6tB.
users wont be uploading videos .

i need help for deciding server configuration .what should be processor,RAM, motherboard,NIC,also which type of harddrive i go for assuming all data will be accessed equally.
are there any softwares which can help in this regard .

also if i want to host dedicated gaming servers also should i buy another server or this single server can handle that.

any help will be appreciated and what i buy will depend mostly on your replys.

[quantumphysics]

For videos, images, CSS/JS, etc - run nginx instead of Apache

[woolrang]

i think it is not answer to my query

[quantumphysics]

Originally Posted by woolrang

i think it is not answer to my query

"are there any softwares which can help in this regard ."

What kind of LAN? Every user on gigabit or FE or 10?

Gameservers should be run separately if possible, they like to spike CPU and stuff

[woolrang]

all users run FE
please do tell me if any other details are required

[woolrang]

any answers please
how should i know my hardware requirements

[net]

You need to have a server at least Quad Core with 8GB ram and SAS drives, etc...

FFMPEG is a good software for youtube alike sites.