[K12OSN] video and mp3

[Barry Cisna]

Hi Alejandro,

There is such a broad spectrum, of variables, when trying to decide on
what is "big enough" when choosing sever specs. With the prices going
way down on 64 bit processors id choose an AMD 64 bit of some sort .
You can look at it like you are running two processors, for the price of
one, other than you don't have the failover capacity of two cpu's.
Nowadays you ought to start out with 4 gigs of ram,along with sata
drives as i think scsi is almost buying new old technology,even though
they do a good job. the trouble you will run into more than anything is
having your network becoming saturated if doing video to several
terminals. Think about putting some money into 1 gig switches for your
backbone,along with new server sizing. Ive had about 20 clients doing
flash, which seems to eat bandwidth more than streaming video,and was
using 56-60 megs on them alone, to give you a simple example. You need
to setup your video/mp3 server,streaming to low bitrates to start out
with anyway, and then step up,if x number of clients run ok, with your
first bitrate settings.
Hope this helps a little,

Barry Cisna