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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. 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 :-)