-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Atte André Jensen schrieb: > Hartmut Noack wrote: > >> If somebody is willing to make such a site, I would be happy to >> support it by offering collaboration in development of the site and >> hosting it for free on my server.... > > I think bandcamp was a valid point regarding bandwidth. For instance I > had 400+ plays of modlys songs the last week + a few downloads, and I'm > just little me. Supposed someone got really popular with, say 10x the > traffic of little me. Supposed you hosted 10 of such artist... > > My math might be wrong, but with 4MB/song that would be about 4 * 40000 > / 1024 = 156 Gb in a week. Even without download of albums in high > quality, I feel that might be taxing on most hostings. Or would you, > Hartmut, be prepared to handle such a load? I might be totally wrong, > and this load could be peanuts... > OK - not really peanuts but not fearsome either. I got 2000 Gigs in my contract and with say 16.000 plays per day(that is: near the limit), one could seriously think about an upgrade to a contract with unlimited traffic. I use this box for my job-purposes so I pay for it anyway, as of now using only a tiny fraction of the traffic included. And don`t you think, that with 15.000 users per day, all of them interested enough to play songs from it - could it not be possible, that one could make some revenue with such a site, that would pay for its bandwith and maybe even for the hosted artists? ;-) But you are right, traffic could become an issue at least in the beginning if you are not prepared so I would not think about a full-blown multimedia-site with configurable playlists, videostreaming and the like. I'd rather make it a virtual recordstore, lean, fast and with individual artwork for the hosted musicians, preconfigured play-buttons and downloads of flacs, artwork etc.. Offering a simple forum for discussions, polls and the like. And of course it should sell CD, DVD and vinyls. And with a network-approach. Artist-related links to sites like last.fm, jamendo and the like. So yes, I thing it would be worth trying :-) best regs HZN -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkshE4gACgkQ1Aecwva1SWN1jwCfSIp9JljnxqWTj2VKUw5dnjjo cdwAoIUFAxNiKiprDUs3OdSivp0TNcae =1uG3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
