[LAU] Linux netlabel?

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 12/11/2009 06:09 PM, david wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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>> On 12/11/2009 05:23 PM, david wrote:
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>>> 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...
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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