[Icecast] Large Amount of Listeners

[Frank Steinborn]

Michael Smith wrote:
> On 9/14/06, Nicolas Cohen <nicolas at smileandsoft.com.ar> wrote:
> >
> >I have to setup an online radio to support 5K users initially and grow into
> >80k users later.
> >
> >1.Has anyone any tips on this?
> >2.Would you recommend serving more than 2000 listeners on a single server?
> 
> More than 2K is trivial. 5K is simple. 10K is straightforward. For
> more than 20K, you will need multiple servers.
> 
> Icecast has no built-in redundancy or load-balancing features.
> 
> Mike

There are some balancing-features in karlH's branch, have a look at
this thread:
http://forum.icecast.org/viewtopic.php?t=1440&sid=8c68e6af7e0d33eccbf6cd907d954460

Frank