Yea or Nay?
Chris B. submitted his recommendations to Municipal Council tonight on the web site proposals for them, still don’t know if the hosting will be with MG Web Services or not. The Council approved his recommendations without them being read to the public in attendance, (namely me, as I was the only person in the room that had a proposal submitted), so will have to wait to see if my services are part of that approval. Unsuccessful applicants are supposed to be notified within thirty days of the opening on Jan. 10th, so will wait and see. Maybe I can get a copy of his report somehow, should be public record …
Peter F. wanted to make sure that a web cam with streaming video could be added to the site, and Chris told him it was, because it’s just code embedded in the web page which is true. Just like the Request for Proposal though, lots of gotchas in that statement as web cams generally just upload an image via ftp every few seconds, (which doesn’t cost a whole lot bandwidth-wise), but the quality leaves much to be desired. Streaming video on the other hand is a whole ‘nuther ball game that uses lots of bandwidth, and an actual video camera so there is some picture quality to the final product. Generally, I recommend a configuration that we have that uses a separate server, optimized and loaded up with the software needed just for streaming. We do the same thing for clients that do online game playing, utilizing different boxes that have smaller hard drives, but the processing power they need is massive with dual quad processors. Inexpensive too, only USD$129/month and for streaming we can do quite a few gigabytes for $50.