[Icecast] Large Amount of Listeners

[Balint Jacint]

Hey Nicolas,

For load test check the page http://www.icecast.org/loadtest1.php
Basically you can have as many listeners on a single server as your
bandwidth can handle if the servers are relatively new.

As of redundancy it depends on your setup. Eg. can you feed the servers
from the studio or something, or do you have to use relaying. Do you get
the signal from the studio or have an FM radio card in the machine and
get the signal from the air?

As for the stream for the listeners I would suggest DNS round robin, it
mostly makes it's job.

Yours,
Jacint

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 21:02 -0300, Nicolas Cohen wrote:
> I have to setup an online radio to support 5K users initially and grow
> into 80k users later.
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> 1.Has anyone any tips on this?
> 2.Would you recommend serving more than 2000 listeners on a single
> server? 
> 3.Are there any redundance features on the relay server mode?
> I was thinking about setting up 2 servers to receive the encoded
> stream and then setting up the relaying servers so they try the first
> server, and on failure, continue to the second (or more) source
> servers. In that case, there's no one single machine on which the
> whole system relies.
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> thanks
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> Nicolas Cohen
> Smile&Soft
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