[BC] Audio Streaming

[Alex Hartman]

Matt,

Okay, you're one of a million. :P

I've worked in IT all my life, except the past 10 years have been
sprinkled with radio. I get both sides of the world. But someone like
live365 or last.fm don't. They think that you can live with a "small
outage" and they still gouge you to hell and back. It's not really
"you get what you pay for". Stupid people will pay $500/mo per stream
on the crappiest hosts, just because it's a pain to change them (or so
they think), and they just live with it.

On the other hand, someone who knows what it costs to run, maintain,
administer, etc a stream host knows that the costs are pretty minimal
once you're in the black. (My business model at one point was 10
customers paying $100/mo and i was making money)

It also matters how the company conducts itself.

There's too many variables really.

--
Alex Hartman

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Matt <matty at xmusiconline.com> wrote:
> I understand it .. but you also "get what you pay for" .. If you want
> cheap stream hosting .. then your going to get cheap service.. 99.9% SLA
> etc.. comes with a high cost and a lot of broadcasters are not willing
> to pony up the money for that at this point.
>
> -Matt
> xmusiconline.com
>
> On 12/14/2011 9:26 PM, Alex Hartman wrote:
>> Streaming companies are computer geeks, they think that a 4-hour
>> turnaround is a good SLA... they don't understand that people can and
>> do make money with these products... and every second is money out the
>> window.
>>
>> --
>> Alex Hartman
>