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Server OS

Hello,

We are looking for best OS for our Wowza Media Server

Сould you let us know what server OS is better from your experience

In our review we have: Solaris and FreeBSD

Hardware is very good

4 CPU Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 2216

I would lean towards Solaris because I am not sure if Java if easy to install on FreeBSD. Also, any of the other popular server distros would work as well (Fedora, CentOS, Debian…). Go with the 64 bit version of the OS and install the 64bit JMV.

Charlie

Hi, if anyone one has found the best/easiest way to get Wowza to work on FreeBSD with Java 1.6 please reach out and reply. We want to experiment with the Wowza server, but are anchored to FreeBSD in the short run.

Thx! Rj

I am runnning WMS on windows server 2008 which it runs very smooth so far. Its very easy to manage the server than any linux machines.

The trick is installing Java. After that it should be a piece of cake. Check out this page to see if it helps with the Java part:

http://www.freebsd.org/java/

Charlie

I don’t have experience with FreeBSD, but I know it has been difficult for some customers to install Wowza on, while, on the other hand, other very experienced FreeBSD users are using Wowza on that OS without a problem

Richard

We use 64bit debian etch and have had smooth sailing for Wowza in terms of performance. It was a bit difficult to install the Sun Java 6 package because a simple apt-get install didn’t do the job, but Java 5 was no problem to install (java 6 isn’t currently part of the main package repo). We use 6 though instead of 5.

We’ve even found that Wowza cut our load from an average of .4 down to about .07 once we got rid of apache and had wowza serve our image/zip files, and serve videos via RTMP streaming

If you are installing on a *nix OS and plan to use load balancing, then I’d advise writing a custom module to report the server load average, instead of relying on the number of connections wowza has. It’s extremely easy to write and just sits in your VHost.xml definition (and can be used along-side the HTTPConnectionInfo module if you want to use both like we do)

You need merely install the diablo-sdk.

cd /usr/ports/java/diablo-jdk16

make install distclean

You will need to manually fetch some distfiles due to licensing.

wget can also be found and installed in the ports tree.

cd /usr/ports/ftp/wget

make install distclean

I have found it stable on 7.0-RELEASE and 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64.

Solaris is a bit fussy about hardware, and frankly you can get an awesome supermicro for a lot less than a sun. Personally I prefer FreeBSD, but Solaris and linux can make good servers too.

Hello,

Tell please - today - what OS will be better for wowza?

10000-15000 connections is planned.

Server:

CPU-Xeon E3-1230V2 x 2Unit

RAM - 16GB

LAN - 10Gbe

Stream - 0.5Mbit (RTMP,HLS)

It seems as Solaris with Java is better.

But how will if install to FreeBSD 9.0?

Or can you will advise other option?

Thanks in advance

Hello,

Tell please - today - what OS will be better for wowza?

10000-15000 connections is planned.

Server:

CPU-Xeon E3-1230V2 x 2Unit

RAM - 16GB

LAN - 10Gbe

Stream - 0.5Mbit (RTMP,HLS)

It seems as Solaris with Java is better.

But how will if install to FreeBSD 9.0?

Or can you will advise other option?

Thanks in advance