Nimble Streamer is a light-weight HTTP streaming media server. The "light-weight" means that it’s targeted for being used on small virtual servers. These small servers can be deployed both as a single server and as a task force, or a farm, which can effectively stream the media via HLS, Smooth and progressive download.
Nimble is provided free of charge and its target platform is Ubuntu. If you want to make further savings, you look for the cost-effective hosting provider. DigitalOcean has the unbeatable prices which makes it a great virtual cloud provider for streaming media hosting. Of course you can use any other hosting provider like Amazon or Rackspace. WMSPanel is not affiliated with neither of the mentioned companies.
Let's see how "DigitalOcean + Nimble Streamer" stack can help you start streaming VOD content within just several minutes. We’ll follow these easy steps:
Nimble is provided free of charge and its target platform is Ubuntu. If you want to make further savings, you look for the cost-effective hosting provider. DigitalOcean has the unbeatable prices which makes it a great virtual cloud provider for streaming media hosting. Of course you can use any other hosting provider like Amazon or Rackspace. WMSPanel is not affiliated with neither of the mentioned companies.
Let's see how "DigitalOcean + Nimble Streamer" stack can help you start streaming VOD content within just several minutes. We’ll follow these easy steps:
- Create virtual server in DigitalOcean.
- Install Nimble Streamer.
- Set up streaming routes.
- Test the VOD streaming on a desktop and on a mobile device using HTML5 player and JWPlayer.