# Suggestions for streaming architecture

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestions-for-streaming-architecture/217994>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [March 18, 2012, 9:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestions-for-streaming-architecture/217994 "2012-03-18T09:09:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 9:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestions-for-streaming-architecture/217994/1 "2012-03-18T09:09:39Z")

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I am building new streaming architecture and I would like to ask you  
sugestions. We will stream FLV and MP4, both using native nginx modules.

There is one storage server and 4 video streamers. Storage server  
contains all the FLV and MP4 files. Streamers by default does not  
contain anything (except configuration), but they have fast SAS drives  
in RAID-0, what we can use for caching/mirroring/whatever.

Our goal is to move load from storage server to those streamers.

Because all the servers are on the same gigabit LAN, I can have any  
setup I want. I see these three options:

```
 1. mount storage via NFS and stream files from this NFS
    (I have no idea how to setup caching/mirroring in this case)

 2. forward all the request to storage backend and use proxy_cache 

```

on  
streamers (this will, however, cache also request with start=NN,  
where NN\>0, so I might have cache poluted with a lot of unusable  
MP4/FLV files)

```
 3. use proxy_store; documentation says it is mirror on demand, but
    how to mirror only whole MP4/FLV files in this mirror-on-demand?

```

If there is any other possibility how to do this, please suggest.

Thanks for you suggestions

Ondrej

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Ondrej JOMBIK  
Platon Technologies s.r.o., Hlavna 3, Sala SK-92701  
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