Amazon vs. Linode.com for installing MediaCore opensource edition

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Amazon vs. Linode.com for installing MediaCore opensource edition

4 posts Started 12 years ago by swordfish Latest reply from Felix Schwarz

swordfish
Member
Posted 12 years ago

Hello everybody.

At the documentation I've found that if pandastream plugin used,
content that is uploaded to MediaCore is automatically sent off to be encoded in the cloud. Pandastream is working on Amazon servers.

So If want to choose a hosted VPS server for MediaCore: what should I choose: linode.com with setting up an initial storage for uploaded files to Amazon bucket or should I better choose an Amazon based cloud server? What is faster?

Where do MediaCore upload content given by the user?
Felix Schwarz
MediaDrop developer
Posted 12 years ago

Here's how the pandastream integration works: MediaCore receives the uploaded file and pushes them to PandaStream which will put them in Amazon S3. So as long as you have a fast network connection basically every server will be ok (a fast CPU helps for MediaCore as well).

> Where do MediaCore upload content given by the user?

I'm not sure if I understood you correctly here but assuming the Panda plugin is not active the files will be placed in data/media
swordfish
Member
Posted 12 years ago

Felix,thank you for reply.
So it would be ok if MediaCore installed on linode.com (VPS) with a Pandastream plugin enabled?
Or it is better to install MediaCore to Amazon to reduce speed of file transfer from mediacore to panda?
Or file,uploaded by the user, directly goes to Amazon storage and it does not matter when MediaCore's front end installed: on linode.com (for ex.) or on Amazon?
Felix Schwarz
MediaDrop developer
Posted 12 years ago

> So it would be ok if MediaCore installed on linode.com (VPS) with a Pandastream plugin enabled? Or it is better to install MediaCore to Amazon to reduce speed of file transfer from mediacore to panda?

I don't think will make a difference in terms of speed.

> Or file,uploaded by the user, directly goes to Amazon storage and it does not matter when MediaCore's front end installed: on linode.com (for ex.) or on Amazon?

The file will first go the your MediaCore frontend server but the bottleneck is usually the user's upload bandwidth. And just for sending a file (once) to Panda I don't think you'll notice any difference in speed either from linode or Amazon.

hope that helps

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