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Mark Wears Glasses
Mark Wears Glasses

Reputation: 31

Hosting Audio Files

I'm considering building a website that helps musicians collaborate remotely. To do this, they would need to share large (uncompressed) audio files.

For the solution I'm considering, I'd like to be able to perform the following functions:

My concern is the large bandwidth demand. Should I perform these actions on my own (hosted) server space, or is there a service with APIs I can use?

I've checked out Amazon's S3 which allows me to host files, however I can't find anything that suggests I can stream from their services. I'm not sure that S3 is right for what I'm trying to achieve.

Can someone provide some high-level architectural advice?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 215

Answers (1)

Brad
Brad

Reputation: 163593

What Paul mentioned in his comments is true... S3 is not designed to be a CDN.

However, if your audio files aren't intended to be used by over a thousand people at a time, you don't actually need a CDN. You can put them on S3 and stream directly from there (over HTTP) without difficulty. It sounds like you're going to have a bunch of tracks that will only be accessed by a handful of people. S3 is fine for this.

When it comes to publishing finished work that might be used by many, that would be a good time to use Cloudfront.

Upvotes: 2

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