MediaCP Manual
    1. Getting Started
    2. Sales Questions
    3. Frequently Asked Questions
    4. Transcoder System Benchmarks
    5. Start your own streaming platform
    1. Product Licensing
    2. Change account currency
    1. Introduction
    2. Installation & Upgrade
      1. System Requirements
      2. Versions & Releases
      3. Installation
      4. Upgrading
      5. SSL Certificates
      6. Streaming Servers
        1. Nginx-Rtmp Video Server
        2. Wowza Streaming Engine
        3. Flussonic Media Server
        4. Video Feature Comparison
        5. Icecast 2 / Icecast KH
    3. Billing Integration
      1. Clientexec Integration Guide
      2. Blesta Integration Guide
      3. WHMCS Integration Guide
    4. Migrate from other software
      1. Migrate From AzuraCast
      2. Migrate From Centovacast
    5. Backup & Restoration
      1. Backup MediaCP
      2. Restore MediaCP
      3. Transfer to another server
    6. Administration
      1. Reset Admin Password
      2. Port 80 / 443 Proxy
      3. MediaCP System Commands
      4. Change MediaCP domain name
      5. Move media to another hard disk
      6. Secure your server
      7. Troubleshooting Login Errors
      8. Custom Facebook App
      9. Custom Web Service Configurations
      10. Admin Tools
    7. Scaling
      1. Nginx-Rtmp with CloudFront CDN
      2. Scale with Wowza and CloudFront CDN
    8. Troubleshooting
      1. Troubleshooting Wowza Streaming Engine
      2. FTP Troubleshooting
      3. MySQL Database Troubleshooting
      4. Reporting Troubleshooting
      5. Troubleshooting Liquidsoap AutoDJ
      6. Video Relay Troubleshooting
      7. Grant access to support team
    1. Introduction
    2. Administrators Dashboard
    3. System Configuration
      1. General
      2. Services
      3. Video Players
      4. Albums
      5. Email
      6. Plugins
      7. Statistics
      8. Backups
      9. Custom HTML
      10. Misc
    4. Customer Accounts
      1. Managing existing Customers
      2. Create a new Customer
      3. Deleting a Customer
      4. Login as another Customer
      5. Send email to Customer
      6. Reset Customer Password
    5. Reseller Accounts
      1. Create a Reseller Account
      2. Reseller Plans
    6. Media Services
      1. Creating a Media Service
      2. Deleting a Media Service
    7. Announcements
      1. Managing Announcements
      2. Creating Announcement
      3. Deleting Announcement
    8. Statistics
    9. Software Health
    10. Software Updates
    11. Email Templates
    12. API
    1. Introduction
    2. Audio Operation Manual
      1. Basics 101
      2. Station Overview
      3. Media Library
      4. Playlists
        1. General Rotation
        2. Jingles & Advertising
        3. Scheduling
        4. Repeat Protection
      5. Live DJ Connections
      6. Live Stream Recording
      7. DJ Manager
      8. Country Blocking
      9. HTML5 Player
      10. Stream Authentication
      11. Stream Proxy
      12. Public Page
      13. Widgets & Links
      14. Reporting
    3. Video Operation Manual
      1. Basics 101
      2. Service Overview
      3. File Manager
      4. Scheduling
      5. Streaming to Your Service
      6. Stream Targets
      7. GeoIP Country Locking
      8. Widgets & Links
      9. Reporting
    4. Reseller Operations Manual
      1. Reseller Dashboard
      2. Customers
      3. Media Services
    1. Custom Domain Names
    2. Shoutcast 2 Admin Guide
    3. Wowza and Flussonic on same system
    4. Submit a feature request
    5. Wowza Custom Properties
    6. API Documentation
    1. DJ Priorities
    2. HTML5 Audio Player
    3. Broadcasting with AutoDJ
    4. Shoutcast 2 Premium
    5. Mount Points
    6. Managing Media Using FTP
    7. Shoutcast 2 Live Broadcasting
    1. Getting started with video streaming
    2. Live Streaming Overview
    3. TV Station Overview
    4. Ondemand Video Streaming
    5. Stream Recording
    6. GeoIP Country Locking
    7. VAST Advertising
    8. Relay & IP Camera
    9. Connecting your encoder
    10. Preparing Your Media Files
    11. Managing Media Using FTP
    12. Understanding Video Playlists
    13. Embedding player on your website
    14. Smooth Streaming and Content Transition
    15. Video Transcoding (Adaptive Bitrate Streaming)
    16. Image Logo or Watermark Overlay on Video Stream
    17. DVR Rewind
    18. Statistics
    19. Facebook Live Streaming
    20. Youtube Stream Publishing
    21. Twitch Stream Publishing
    22. Shoutcast 2 Stream Publishing
    23. Icecast Stream Publishing
    24. RTMP Stream Publishing
    1. Cloud Video Overview
    2. Admin Manual - Cloud Video
      1. Dashboard - A First Look
      2. Branding your platform
      3. Team & Staff Members
      4. Plans & Customers
      5. WHMCS Billing Provisioning Module
      6. Login to your cloud platform
      7. Activating VOD on Customer Plan
    3. User Manual - Cloud Video
      1. Login to your video platform
      2. First Look
      3. Creating a Channel
      4. Channel Overview
      5. Broadcasting
      6. Media Content
      7. Recording
      8. Fallback Video
      9. TV Channels - 24x7 UGC
      10. Video on Demand
      11. VOD Playlists
      12. Publishing
      13. Viewing Analytics
      14. Publish Zoom Meetings
      15. Advertising
      16. Restreaming IP Cameras
    4. Video Guide Series
    5. Streaming Best Practices
    6. Feature Comparison
    7. Roadmap & Release Notes
Scale with Wowza and CloudFront CDN

Last updated 5 months ago

A single server can handle only so many concurrent streams and viewers before it becomes overloaded. You can scale your server to handle increased capacity by implementing a Content Delivery Network (CDN) into the workflow to offload the viewer connections.

MediaCP is capable of deploying Wowza Streaming Engine application in HTTP Origin mode. Wowza HTTP Origin mode is a special, sessionless mode that uses HTTP caching proxies in front of Wowza Streaming Engine to cache the live or VOD content, thus reducing the load on Wowza Streaming Engine. When HTTP Origin mode is enabled, regular third-party HTTP caching proxies that are configured to cache video content can re-stream the content from the Wowza Streaming Engine application.

Benefits

  • Increase Viewers Capacity beyond the limitations of a single server
  • Reliable Streaming – CDNs typically cache content at edges around the world which means fast and reliable access to the broadcast from any location in the world.

Limitations

  • Connections and Statistics Information is not available from MediaCP or Wowza Streaming Engine. The information may be available from your CDN service. For this reason it is typically best suited to serve a single customer per server instance.
  • It is not possible to see or limit the number of viewers on a CDN enabled stream.

Costs

How to

1. Enable MediaCP CDN Capabilities

Contact our Billing & Support department to enable the CDN add-on. Please note additional costs may apply.

2. CloudFront CDN

Create a CloudFront distribution in front of your Wowza Streaming Engine port 1936.

3. Configure MediaCP Edge URL

4. Enable HTTP Origin Mode (CDN) on the service

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