[LAU] Linux netlabel?

[Hartmut Noack]

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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

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