Ask HN: Cheapest way to do 2,000 concurrent rtmp video streams?

[kbrower]

Looking to change our infrastructure. Looking to set up a rtmp server(s) that can stream 2,000 rtmp streams(500kB/s each). Anyone have any experience with red5/flash media server. What sort of performance can I expect. Any way to cache the video files in RAM using this software out of the box. Should I just go with a CDN if my peak bandwidth will be 10x off peak? Any hosting providers/co-locaters that have low bandwidth costs(10TB of traffic) and a nice(at least 1GB/s) connection.

Thanks!

[forcer]

I hope I will be facing the same problem soon with UsabilityTest.com :) ! I just started by using Wowzy , have been playing with Red5 2 years ago which was complicated to get it running - now I guess when they are reaching RC it should be good. As for hosting - I only know good UK hosting providers.

[ieatpaste]

you might want to give these guys a call:

http://www.influxis.com/

they do FMS hosting