spliting airtime between 3 servers
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Tom SparksTom Sparks
    Posts: 9Member
    I would like to split Airtime between 3 servers:
    1.  Postgresql db
    2. Air Time web interface
    3. icecast, liquidsoap

    Can it be done?

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  • Vote Up1Vote Down Wade EilrichWade Eilrich
    Posts: 98Member
    It looks possible. Look at the airtime.conf file. The documentation mentions a handy command (airtime-update-db-settings) that updates "all of Airtime's database configuration files". They recommend you run this command if you modify the [database] section of airtime.conf

    http://en.flossmanuals.net/airtime/configuration/ Check out the section called 'Configure the database'.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hoerichhoerich
    Posts: 627Member, Airtime Moderator
    afaik, only icecast can be hosted on another server.
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Tom SparksTom Sparks
    Posts: 9Member
    that sucks :((
    I was hoping to remove a possible DDoS headache

  • Vote Up0Vote Down hoerichhoerich
    Posts: 627Member, Airtime Moderator
    I might be wrong, just give it a try and be sure to adapt appropriate systemfiles
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Roger WilcoRoger Wilco
    Posts: 784Banned
    Tom Sparks said:

    that sucks :((
    I was hoping to remove a possible DDoS headache



    DDoS headache how...?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Rick ColletteRick Collette
    Posts: 4Member
    Wade is totally right; beyond that, you probably should have the database served from another server.  
    This goes past just avoiding a ddos; you can then have a standby airtime server in case your primary goes down, if you run a load balancer in front of airtime, you can set sticky sessions on the LB, and let the LB handle failover - or use heartbeat, but I prefer letting the LB do it...

    TL;DR: you should put the db on a different host and try to perf tune it.

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Roger WilcoRoger Wilco
    Posts: 784Banned
    There's absolutely no logical or technological reason to intentionally separate the Airtime UI from the DB or LS. None. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

    If anything, Icecast could (and should) be separated to keep your Airtime server from becoming a lightning rod on the public Interwebs. But even then, if someone nefarious really wants to attempt to DDoS your Icecast box, they're going to do it.

    And at that point, under serious attack, your upstream provider is likely to notice and take the appropriate countermeasures with or without you.
    Post edited by Roger Wilco at 2014-07-03 12:45:58
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