<div dir="ltr">Hi Thomas,<div><br></div><div>We need a load balancer to allow for a single URL "entry point" to multiple Icecast servers - we intend to host multiple Icecast servers behind the load balancer so that we can expand / contract capacity as required - we would add servers into the load balancer pool. This also allows us to scale beyond the number of listeners a single Icecast server can support, while still maintaining the "illusion" of a single streaming server.</div><div><br></div><div>It also provides redundancy / failover capability by allowing us to balance connections across Icecast servers in multiple AWS availability zones.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm aware of some "playlist based" loadbalancing techniques using .m3u or HTTP redirects to the icecast servers, but this is not ideal for us, as a) we need to support some legacy players (eg. set top boxes) that don't support redirects or m3u's, and b) using ELB allows us to very easily provision backend health checks, multi availability zone redundancy, and auto scaling of Icecast servers.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that answers your question,</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Matt</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 October 2014 13:41, "Thomas B. Rücker" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas@ruecker.fi" target="_blank">thomas@ruecker.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Matt,<br>
<span class=""><br>
On 10/13/2014 07:08 PM, Matt Gray wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I'm writing to see if anyone here has had any success running Icecast2<br>
> (specifically I am using 2.4) on Amazon EC2 behind an Elastic Load<br>
> Balancer?<br>
<br>
</span>Why do you think you need a load balancer in the first place?<br>
<br>
Icecast saturates the network before you notice any other significant<br>
resource usage.<br>
<br>
I'm happy to help you with your problem if there is a good reason, but<br>
would like to first make sure that this needs to be addressed.<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
Thomas<br>
<br>
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