John was happy. He’d just turned in a commission and he was enjoying a relaxing evening. Hours upon hours of development, optimization, testing, changes and approvals were left behind.
And just as he was contemplating picking up a nice cold beer, his phone rang.
“Only half the viewers could connect to the stream!” — said the voice on the other side of the line.
With a resigned sigh, John opened up his laptop and started pouring through logs.
Unfortunately, in all of those many tests, he never considered that a big number of viewers would mean great strains for the server infrastructure and the network itself.
As it happens, John is not alone in his plights. Many users reach out to tech support with questions like these:
“What kind of server do I need for 1000 viewers?”
“My server is solid, but only 250 viewers can connect simultaneously, the rest either can’t join, or get stuck with terrible video quality”
Such questions have one inquiry in common: How does one choose a correct server?
Previously we’d already touched on the topic of choosing a server based on the number of subscribers. Here’s the gist:
1. When choosing a server for streaming—with or without balancing—you need to take into the account the load profiles:
- basic streaming;
- streaming with transcoding;
- stream mixing.