Will shared web hosting be OK for realtime audio streaming?
Hi, we’re setting up a wordpress blog for our church that will include audio mp3 streams of our weekly services. The site will have relatively little traffic ( < 500 unique visitors, < 5000 page views/mo), and an even smaller percentage of that accessing the audio streams.
So my questions were, a) is audio mp3 streaming CPU intensive, and b) with our projected traffic, will there be a CPU issue running on a shared server?
March 25th, 2008 at 6:54 am
A lot of this depends on your host and their restrictions. Some offer audio/video streaming with their packages, others try to shy away from it in order to conserve resources. I’d recommend just asking your hosting provider what their policy is, and whether it’s included with your hosting plan or not. I don’t imagine you’d have too much of an issue… but each host is unique.