European VPS hosting

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Mar 29, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Geoff Shang wrote:

> 3. Have you considered Amazon EC2?
>
> I hadn't, but I have now and dismissed it.  We are starting an  
> Internet radio station, and the 24/7 uptime for the cheapest EC2  
> instance hosted in Europe would be over $80/month.  Add to that that  
> it would cost approximately $7.50 per month per listener to a  
> 128kbps stream, and that this doesn't count web  traffic, uploading  
> content to the server for playout, etc, and you can see that it  
> doesn't scale very well.
>


Have you thought about Miro? It's a product of the Partipatory Culture  
Foundation and
is really intended for Internet TV, but works with Internet Radio. You  
set up a channel
and publish shows. The Miro software automaticly downloads them with  
bit torrent and
gives you a nice gui for it. A friend of mine uses to watch the US  
network's news programs
here in Israel. When he wakes up in the morning, the evening news is  
on his computer.

There are other text oriented tools for podcasting, that don't require  
a gui. The advantage of
Miro is that it uses bit torrent as its transport mechanism to reduce  
bandwidth costs of
distribution.

Geoff.

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