Whats a Streaming Video Server?
In a nutshell, a streaming video server is a computer that’s designed to provide streaming video services, whether it’s hooked up to the Internet or just a small local area network. Streaming video servers require more computing muscle than your basic everyday Web server. They usually employ one of the more efficient streaming video protocols and server software for enhanced playback quality. They often use multiple hard disk arrays set up in a RAID 0 configuration for maximum speed–in other words, many hard drives operating at the same time for super-fast playback speeds. Some of the larger ones consist of many computers working in tandem for increased processing power. Today, a growing number of companies provide streaming video server space. If your current ISP doesn’t allow you to serve streaming video on your Web site, then you can either change ISPs or keep your Web pages with the same ISP and serve your video from a different ISP that offers streaming video service. Some ISPs a
