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20 Gbit Network Is Not Enough For The Web Server (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi.

I was trying to find a way to prevent server crash every time I do a streaming.

Basically I have a popular movie website and every time I release an episode I get minimum 30k live viewers and whenever I pass 8k live viewers, 20gbit bandwidth becomes useless. I tried to put 5mbps bandwidth limit occasionally to prevent server crash but it didn’t do much. And I don’t want to rent 100 gbit network bandwidth every time I release an episode. So my question is, is there a way to deal with 30 to 60k live viewers only by using 20 gbit network or I just need to rent 100 gbit network occasionally?

Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

From the live video delivery, this is definitely above my expertise, though it sounds like a fun problem to have. Suffering from success and all that.
The only bit I can contribute is automated deployment is your friend. Many providers will allow very easy to use scripted deployment. I don't know what kind of computer power you need to push, but a VPS with a Gb (in theory) pipe is very cheap, and if you need more more powerful VPS or bare metal a lot of providers allow hourly billing, some even hourly billing for bare metal if you need a lot of compute with it- some providers will not take kindly to you pounding a shared compute instance at 100% CPU. What you should look into do is automated deployment...may k8s, maybe something else. Before you start a stream that might have that many viewers, you can just deploy like 40 instances. You don't even have to worry about bandwidth with most providers since you're just running a short time. When your stream is over, all of the instances are destroyed and the billing is stopped to the nearest hour.

You can seriously do what you need for a couple hours for a few bucks if you don't need a bunch of compute, more if you need compute but still very reasonable. The non-compute heavy go 1Gb/s connections as low as not even a whole cent an hour, and you can distribute this across multiple providers to give more geographic locations.
The one caution I would give with this method is before you invest time in making a platform work for your setup is to actually grab an instance manually and benchmark the connection. Some are 1Gb/s, but will throttle to less during peak times, so test over time too. Know what you are dealing with and how many instances you need.