Although I have not personally verified this, you should be able to run several chan_voter instances (and associated nodes) on something as small even as a Raspberry-Pi. Jim From: tim.sawyer@me.com Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:13:37 -0700 To: App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: [App_rpt-users] Fwd: Building a simulcast system See below... -- Tim :wq Begin forwarded message:From: Bob - AF6D <bob@af6d.com> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Building a simulcast system Date: August 11, 2013 10:23:48 AM PDT To: 'Michael Hebert' <mhebert1975@gmail.com> Cc: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org I am blessed with running my own hosting business and own my data center. At home I have business class service. I have 50 down and 5 up. I think that easily covers the voice portion. I have KVM over IP and Remote APC reboot – or I can run it here just as easily as my data center. 1. Which version of the software is best for simulcast? The latest ACID. Always upgrade after install. see https://allstarlink.org/support.html#astupgrade 2. How about the hardware? By default I would use a Pentium 4 3GHz with 4GHz of RAM a Dell GX series desktop. That's plenty. I'm running 4 mix client nodes, a two client simulcast node and a four client simulcast node. That's 10 RTCMs on 6 nodes. All on a single Intel Atom D25 (1Gb RAM) with ACID installed on a SSD. It runs 94% idle and 300 Mb free. 3. Should I run a SSD drive for boot-up or would a Western Digital RE4 (server class) work ok across the board? Yep. 3. Besides simulcast for 3 nodes I’d like to share what we have as a conference node (???). Do I have enough horsepower? I have 50 down and 5 up. Yes. 4. I'd like a private server and a public server on one PC. No, only one server per PC is recommended. VMs are not recommended, and I might scold you if you try :-). But you can have both private and public nodes on the same server. I would be tremendously grateful to anyone that answers these entry level questions. I don't want to make mistakes from the beginning. I'll send you a bill first of the month, thank you for your generosity :-) Humbly Yours, AF6D _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users