Submitted by christobal in freeAsInFreedom (edited )

Hi there, looking for some advice / have some questions:

I want to run a home server for Streama (https://github.com/dularion/streama) and Airsonic (https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic) and I'm considering renting a webserver from cloudvault as a seperate webdev playground.

So my questions is, can both of those point to the same domain? For example: mydomain.com for web, mydomain.com/airsonic for airsonic and mydomain.com/streama for streama even though the hosts are different?

And also, what kind of hardware should I be looking at for a home media server like that? Maximum 10 users.

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sudo wrote (edited )

So my questions is, can both of those point to the same domain? For example: mydomain.com for web, mydomain.com/airsonic for airsonic and mydomain.com/streama for streama even though the hosts are different?

Yes. This is something that you will have to configure in your web hosting software. I know for a fact nginx can do it, and I'm pretty sure Apache can, too. You could also do streama.mydomain.com and airsonic.mydomain.com, if you like that better.

And also, what kind of hardware should I be looking at for a home media server like that?

More than likely, the initial bottleneck won't be your hardware, but the speed of your internet connection. In order to do streaming like this, you'll have to buy the fastest internet package that your ISP offers, possibly even a small business package. Nothing else will be fast enough to send HD video as quickly as it's being watched by the other person. If it's only ten users at a time, I think a moderately beefy home computer should be able to handle the job. I personally would go for an i5 or higher processor, and at least 8GB of RAM. Take this advice with a grain of salt, since I don't have experience with setting up a service like this, but that's my back-of-the-napkin estimate for the lowest required hardware.

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christobal OP wrote (edited )

300/300 should be enough to stream hd to a couple of people I imagine.

Thanks for the advice though :)

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sudo wrote

If that's megabits per second, yes.

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christobal OP wrote

yeah anyone around here can get that for a fairly decent price. 400/400 seems to be the new standard though, so I imagine im getting bumped to that within not to long.

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