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ok so until The Incident i had a home server on a symmetrical 1gbps fibre line. i had a linux on it, as you do, and i did everything from use it as a NAS to torrents, ran an IPTV channel off of it, all kind of shit. was even going to host an actual website on it
now i have a bad cable internet connection and no room to put a server anywhere. i need some sort of hosting service that will let me have a linux somewhere and host stuff on it
who and how much?
im a fan of ssdnodes. you can get huge boxes for absurdly cheap when they go on sale which they probably will come july 4th
caveat: they run on 2.2ghz machines so if you need it for, say, minecraft...... it's not the best
i've had good experiences with digital ocean. i continue to have an ongoing one, i pay $24 usd a month for 2-core cpu thing with 4gb ram and 80 gigs of space, and i host 3 installs of ghost on it on top of regular apache webserver stuff and the standard mysql/php stuff. and also nginx-rtmp for my movie night streaming page. and also sometimes a UT2004 server or foundry.
i guess what i'm saying is if you are doing fewer things than that, they can get as cheap as $4, with various gradations. also if you wanna store a bunch of media for cheap they have "spaces" which are 250 gigs for $5, but are amazon s3 style things so you can't directly treat them like a drive. you can also add more drive space as block storage but its more expensive per gig.
i think there's some way i could generate a referral link but i'm specifically not going to because i think that kind of incentive would tarnish this as an honest recommendation.
that's very cheap, but what i don't understand is how to gauge the processing speed on offer. my goal is to stream 1024x576, 25fps H264 to like five people simultaneously, and also to have an apache server for a personal site that'll get probably dick all views
i was streaming 720p30 to up to 5 people on the reg when i was at the tier that had 1 cpu core and 1 gig of ram, and also serving the apache site. that's the $6 tier. they added the $4 tier after i'd bumped way up.
how are you doing the streaming btw? my movie night thing is nginx-rtmp outputting an HLS playlist that hls.js dumps into a <video> tag. i also was trying owncast for a while but went back to the simpler thing.
that's exactly what i wanted to hear, and my thing is very similar to that
ok so i'm up on this again and i'm very impressed by the performance on the $12 droplet using nginx-rtmp. transcoding anything is out of the question but i don't mind re-encoding all my shit to exact same specs
i've only streamed one thing so i'm concerned like, can this thing accept a bunch of files queued up one after the other? do I just get ffmpeg to merge them together on the fly?
