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07-16-2009, 01:52 AM #1Web Hosting Master
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Help Needed.
so again, a problem with my FM station. I'm now looking for a dirt cheap + reliable vps for my radio station. (shoutcast).
I don't need anything fancy. my main concern is the budget. that would be $10 max. I don't care about the virtualization as long as its not, HyperVM. Xen is much preferred but I don't really care as long as it has a decent RAM.
Please take note that I will be using this to run Shoutcast only. I will be running 2 stations with 128Kbps stream and for the first station around 150 users max and for the 2nd one, around 100 also.
I'm looking at HiVelocity's $8 VPS
OpenVZ
10GB space
256MB RAM
1500GB Bandwidth.
$8
my main concern is the RAM will this be okay?
I'm currently running 2 shoutcast servers + cpanel on my Servint vps and it consumes around 950MB RAM.
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07-16-2009, 09:09 AM #2Junior Guru
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I really think that "$10 max" for a reliable VPS suitable for shoutcast is going to be impossible to find. As for RAM, I think you already answered your own question with regards to your Servint vps usage?
Is $10 really the max. you can stretch on this? If so perhaps a specialist shoutcast host can provide a more appropriate service for your needs (i.e. so there aren't the additional overheads of your own VPS instance and hence I guess there must be providers able to do this at a better price)?UK, Chicago, & Singapore Fully Managed Plesk VPS
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07-16-2009, 09:19 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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I thought so too. I can stretch it up to $15 though but I would prefer the cheapest.
I don't want to host my station on those shoutcast hosts as they are indeed a lot more expensive than those of some vps companies. they offer 128kbps/10 users for $15 a month but in a vps, I can set my own limits and It will be more flexible.
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07-16-2009, 11:33 AM #4Junior Guru
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You might consider shedding in a few more dollars could get you a better VPS provider and a better config will only do good.
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07-16-2009, 06:18 PM #5Web Hosting Guru
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you should raise your budget to $20-30 /mo, and also look for unmanaged VPS, with $10, you'll only get 256MB VPS, my current VPS has 256MB RAM, and is very fast, not sure about your site tho.
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07-16-2009, 07:31 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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How much of that memory is actually used by Shoutcast? Are you just relaying a stream or doing so re-encoding on the server? It seems like a lot of memory usage. I've run experimental Icecast servers and found the memory usage to be pretty minimal.
On another note, maybe my math is off but:
128 kbps * 250 users = 32,000 kbps or 31 mbps
I seriously doubt that you'll find a cheap VPS that lets you do 31 mbps. Maybe several of those $8 HiVelocity VPSs combined might handle it...
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07-22-2009, 06:53 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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ServInt has figured out that I have issues with apache, that's why. now its running fine at around 500MB.
also does anyone of you know if HiVelocity allows shoutcast on their servers?
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07-22-2009, 05:02 PM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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Why not use one of the shoutcast/Icecast hosts instead of a vps? I found some pricing that's reasonable from icyshout.com and uberstreaming.com. I'm sure there are a bunch of hosts out there that would give you exactly what you need.
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07-22-2009, 06:31 PM #9Junior Guru
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http://www.caperhosting.net - web/shells/ircd/shoutcast hosting!
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07-22-2009, 06:32 PM #10Junior Guru
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Also if looking for a nice reliable vps i recommend www.xygenhosting.com been with them a while now very nice, very stable, and support is amazing! best of luck!
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