I have migrated a blog with quite a few mp4 files. I am noticing many of them don’t seem to be streaming properly.
I’ve added every variation of
location ~* .m(p4|4v)$ { mp4; mp4_buffer_size 1m; mp4_max_buffer_size 10m; }
I can think of to my conf file, but I still don’t see an improvement. Does anyone have some suggestions?
Putting your pages and videos is not a good practice at all. If a couple of users are streaming videos, your site might take forever to load, unless you are hosting the site on some crazy fast server with unlimited network speeds. I would suggest putting your media on a RTMP Server.
It was on a dedicated box with 32gb ram, apache, mysql, php5.6 w/ opcache… and started getting a bit nasty around ~400 concurrent users on the site (wordpress).
I decided to move it over to a 4gb ram DigitalOcean with easyengine (nginx, phpfpm)… the site loads nicely now, resource usage looks fine:
So far… it seems like video is loading ok on the box, but it could be better. I will look at doing an RTMP server to serve just the video though.