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I can set you up a shoutcast Online radio server for just £20 GBP a year! All you need then is the Free Winamp MediaPlayer and the Shoutcast Plugin and your good to go! plug in your equipment/mixers into your line in on your pc and then in a flash your radio station is online!

How many users can you handle at what bitrate(s)?

Second question: I'm looking for a cheap video relay (windows media or something like that) to distribute webcam + audio.
Is there a data limit? (as we might tend to go over 100 GB/Month with this).

not too sure about the video bit but the radio it should handle a good number of users but its untested its a Virtual private server in the netherlands in a large data centre I have run it at 128kbps MP3 Stereo and it works fine but thats with no users,
Its currently hosting my Gaming server but i have plans to close that down...

In that case: did you sort out how many traffic (in means of GB/month) you may generate within the package you pay for?
Audio streaming is something different than hosting a game server, looking at data throughputs.

Just telling this so you arent surprised when the company you rent from sends you a large bill because of too much traffic. My point is: hosting something is almost for free, but traffic is expensive.

Imagine someone does stream with you server. And just calculate for 10 users connected 24/7 @ 128kbps.
13,2 GB/day. = 408 GB/Month, thats a lot and many locations have way lower traffic thresholds. So they are going to sent you a very big bill.
And thats just for 10 users listening to a simple 128 kbps stream. Imagine having 50 listeners, having 256 kbps or higher streams, video streams at more than 500 kbps.

Anyway, you'll know what I mean. And assume you already did. I'm just making sure.

numbers confuse me I have 1000 GB a month how many listeners is that?

there is a lot of companies offering unlimited bandwidth, but will apply a FUP.
There's really no such thing as unlimited disk space, and unlimited bandwidth. If you cost the company 150/mo in bandwidth, and they are only getting 15/mo from you, you wont be there very long. Best suggestion is finding a provider that has packages that will fit your requirements.

djSupport wrote:numbers confuse me I have 1000 GB a month how many listeners is that?

just under 1000 24/hrs at 128mbps.
so your going to be safe on that front...CPU throttling will probably cap you before that thou lol.

The CPUS not going to struggle im sure!

djSupport wrote:The CPUS not going to struggle im sure!

No your probably right, it would only be a problem if you were streaming to 1000 odd clients, you will probably be having multiple streams 50+ which on a virtual (shared) server would hit the CPU limit as not to compromise other peoples servers.

£20 a Year max 50 listeners £40 a Year 150 Listeners Licensing and related legal matters is the responsability of the broadcaster!