[LAU] Linux netlabel?

[david]

Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On 12/11/2009 05:23 PM, david wrote:
>> Hartmut Noack wrote:
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>>> Atte André Jensen schrieb:
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>>>> Hartmut Noack wrote:
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>>>>> 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....
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>>>> 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...
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>>> 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? ;-)
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>> 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?

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