This is something take me by surprise , I was planning to have couple of LowEnd VPS's to do restreaming , but surprise surprise these VPS's were limited to certain bandwidth Monthly ~500G-1TB max aweee so let get's to numbers :- 1 HD Channel @720p broadcast at 4 Mbit/s 4 Mbit/s = 512 KB/s = 1.758 GB/Hour = 42.2 GB/Day = 1265.63 GB/month = 1.236 TB/month
BTW I got one VPS for ~10$/Yr but it has 500GB/monthly bandwidth limitation which will end me buying another one for the second half of the month this will increase 1 channel re-stream price to ~2$ so 20$ for the 10 channel I preparing to start with .
that's makes the total cost of servers hosting ~200$/Yr just for sorce channels rebroadcasting
BTW I was thinking offer different quality starting from 256Kbit(not kidding)-512Kbit-680Kbit-1Mbit-2Mbit-4Mbit , I may end-up using one quality 680Kbit and let the source VPS handle the transcoding . So what you think about my project .
Well, VPS for restreaming is a bad idea due to several reasons: CPU overhead Channel limitations and guarantees
Restreaming server should be a bare metal with guaranteed bandwidth. With unmetered traffic if possible.
Rather rare thing but still possible.