I'm on the board of a non-profit community FM radio station. We're interested in recording our programmers' shows into in an archive and then allowing them to be streamed from our website. We'd also like to be able use them as podcast feeds.
I've reviewed most of the media hosting solutions and the amount of space these files would take up is cost prohibitive (~25 gb each month or 300gb of mp3 files by the end of the first year). The problem with something like SoundCloud is that it only allows 1 RSS feed per account.
We have access to fiber internet and can get something like 100mbps upload speeds or more if we need. If we store our files at 128kbps, that would mean we could have something like ~780 listeners at any given moment. I think that would be more than enough for what we're expecting, and if one or more of our shows begin to takeoff then we could get them a separate SoundCloud account.
My question is, is getting a dedicated IP address and setting up our own server a feasible solution, and if so, how and what would that look like? What kind of configuration would we need? Would a simple desktop computer running XAMPP and a NAS set up in Raid10 work? Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
I've reviewed most of the media hosting solutions and the amount of space these files would take up is cost prohibitive (~25 gb each month or 300gb of mp3 files by the end of the first year). The problem with something like SoundCloud is that it only allows 1 RSS feed per account.
We have access to fiber internet and can get something like 100mbps upload speeds or more if we need. If we store our files at 128kbps, that would mean we could have something like ~780 listeners at any given moment. I think that would be more than enough for what we're expecting, and if one or more of our shows begin to takeoff then we could get them a separate SoundCloud account.
My question is, is getting a dedicated IP address and setting up our own server a feasible solution, and if so, how and what would that look like? What kind of configuration would we need? Would a simple desktop computer running XAMPP and a NAS set up in Raid10 work? Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
