Patrick Shirkey wrote: > On 12/11/2009 05:23 PM, david wrote: >> Hartmut Noack wrote: >> >>> -----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? ;-) >>> >> Hmm, I think my family's hosting plan has 1TB/month transfer. Through >> GoDaddy.com. > > It's not just the size of the hosting plan it also the amount of > connections that can be made and the speed of the pipe... > > Still it would be possible to cobble something together from a bunch of > different hosts to provide enough bandwidth to meet the potential > transfer requirements. Could something be done via torrents? -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
