On 12/11/2009 06:09 PM, david wrote: > 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? > > Yes, either by hosting the torrents locally and having a group or by providing webbased torrentz that are hosted on teh server with a torrents engine seeding from there. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
