Hi,
I’m currently building a simple theatre website where the audiences can login so they can watch a video (self-hosted video). Yup there will be only one video, that will be played once a day, for 3 days.
In a single day, the website will have 300-500 audiences per session to watch a video.
Any advice on which Droplet size/plan should be used for this? I saw a streaming droplet here https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/streaming/, but somehow unable to locate it when choosing Droplet option in the dashboard.
I’m planning to build it using NextJS and MongoDB as the database.
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Hello @ardiansyaherwin
Yes, it’s always challenging to find the right server to host your website. It completely depends on how much resources are required to run your website and incoming traffic. In general, we have a documentation link that will help you in choosing the right plan:
Cheers, Dikshith
We do have resources on this topic which you can check here
https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/streaming
https://www.digitalocean.com/resources/article/improve-performance-media-streaming
If you’re planning on using our Spaces product you can consider the following information.
Spaces are designed for storing and serving moderate to large files. Files 20 MB to 200 MB in size will give the best performance for both writes and reads. Additionally, combining small files into one larger file will greatly reduce the overall number of requests to your Space compared to handling many small files individually.
How Do I Implement This?
When uploading files larger than 500 MB, you should use multi-part uploads.
We recommend combining files less than 1 MB together into a single, larger file. How you do this will be specific to your particular files and use case, but one example is concatenating daily log files into a monthly file.
Hope that this helps!
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