What is your Subsonic setup?

[frotzed]

Basic home server for me. Found an old Lenovo ThnkCentre someone was going to throw away, Intel Pentium4 (yeah baby), 2GB RAM, Ubuntu Server (headless) 10.04, 1TB HDD. Has all the horsepower I need to serve Subsonic to 6+ users simultaneously.

If I were running a bloated server like Windows Server 2008 R2 there's no way in hell my hardware could handle it. But as it stands with a VERY trim server OS, Subsonic rules it like a boss.

[Nightcap]

Hi, got this setup with a HP Proliant DL360 running VMWare ESXi 4.1. I have an virtual ubuntu 11.04 running as subsonic server and a QNAP TS209Pro serving files through NFS. The client I use most is the iphone iSub client, but also the web interface at work.

[fventura03]

AMD Phenom II 870 - Quad Core, 3.2ghz
15tb
WHS v1
50mbps down, 20mbps up

[JMilesT]

My media server:
AMD Phenom II 955 (Quad Core)
Windows 7 x64
12 GB RAM
5 Terabytes of disk space is available. Backups are made often.

Subsonic is installed on a RAM Disk (QSoft RAMDisk Enterprise). The index has also been moved to the RAM Disk for a huge performance boost.
FFMPEG and LAME are the 64-bit verisons.

I get my static builds of FFMPEG from here:
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

My PC tower case is a Thermaltake brand V9 BlacX, which has SATA hard drive slots at the top of the case allowing me to quickly hot-swap hard drives in and out of the system when it's time to make backups.

In the interest of security (or paranoia), I avoid logging into this machine as much as possible.

I manage my music collection from other PC using MediaMonkey.

[fventura03]

^ nice, updated my FFMPEG to the latest build on there,

[Merlinuk]

I have a home built system. X2 4200 AMD with 2 GB Ram, 4 Internal drives (300 GB, 250 GB, 2x200 GB) plus 1 TB External backup.
The 2 x 200 GB drives house my music collection plus a full copy on the external.

Its running through a Belkin wireless card as the router is to far away to run cables...
Subsonic runs quitely as a service and hooks up via the url direction nicely most of the time. I mainly run subsonic as a home media streamer but occasionaly allow friends access.
The only drawback to off home network guests is that because of bandwidth restrictions I have to limit the stream to 28kbs to make it usable for them and I dont allow downloading.
Sadly we are Optic cable free and running it on the ADSL upload speeds is painful unless you impose limits.

[lars mars]

what is your point to transcode from various (more or less) lossy mp3 to "lossless" format???? once it is in a "lossy" format you can't transcode it up to lossless! whats lost is lost mate, you can take up more hdd space but you wont restore quality!

I'm not transcoding up from mp3, just re-encoding from CD; hence my note about hand-feeding the CD's. I am familiar with the fact you can't upgrade the quality from a worse source.

ok, sorry in that case, i guess i misinterpreted your post. my fault. i was just wondering at the time...

[captlogic@gmail.com]

Wow,

So many of you have 'real' server setups!

I'm running subsonic on my main PC
Intel Core 2 Duo 3ghz
4GB Ram
Multiple HD's (internal & External)
I share with about 3-5 of my friends a total of 1TB of media, music, tv, movies, audiobooks.

I LOVE SUBSONIC!

[nikku]

Have mine running in a VM on an ESX host, 12GB ram, Phenom II quad 3.4ghz, 4 1-Gigabit NICs bonded together, 4TB storage in RAID10 with two 15k SAS drives in raid0 for the OSes (the 4TB is being controlled by direct RAW mappings to another VM that acts as my SAN which is dishing it out via ISCSI to my file server, which then gets mapped to my home systems via GPO by my Domain controller ). All backed up of course ^_^

Most of this was to practice for my job interviews to become an IT admin XD

[Sillynder]

Wow, many of you have very powerful hardware! I'm running Subsonic under Debian Squeeze with an AMD Athlon 5050e underclocked to 1600 MHz with 2 GB RAM. Video encoding can max out the CPU, but I have hardly any videos to encode. My music collection (400 GB) is stored on a 4 x 1 TB raid-5 setup.

[glic3rinu]

Hardware
Intel i5 quad-core 2.8Ghz
8GB ram
1x64GB SSD VERTEX 3 SATA3 (for SO)
2x2TB HDD SATA2 (only for music)
1x500GB HDD SATA2 (for downloads)
100/100Mbps Internet connection

In order to get the highest performance I'm running subsonic with tomcat connected to apache2. Also I have rtorrent (with wtorrent) and amuled for new music downloads. All this software are running inside a chroot with debian squeeze on top of Ubunu 11.10. I set all of this in a chroot in order to keep regular backups of a functional subsonic installation.

For the music library backup I'm planning to set up a mirror with 2x2TB HDD in another location and keep it sync with rsync.

[Robandcathy]

Im running windows home server 2011 intel mobo 4 gigs of ram I5 3200 Ghz 7 X 2 terabyte hard drives ( yes 14 + terabytes and im a mechanic smh) and one main drive which is ssd for OS Currently sharing 3 terabytes of Music/Movies, set it up per tutorial for home server using tomcat.... but my main computer is insane, but not for this topic.

[martyscholes]

Sun v40z 4x Opteron 2.4GHz 16GB
Opensolaris build 128a
2x 73GB internal SCSI disks
4x 2gb fibre ports feeding 2x Silkworm FC switches
2x Storedge A5200 arrays as split loops (8x 1gb links), 44 disks
33x 73GB FC disks
11x 300GB FC disks
All storage protected by ZFS
2x gigabit ethernet

[lars mars]

Sun v40z 4x Opteron 2.4GHz 16GB
Opensolaris build 128a
2x 73GB internal SCSI disks
4x 2gb fibre ports feeding 2x Silkworm FC switches
2x Storedge A5200 arrays as split loops (8x 1gb links), 44 disks
33x 73GB FC disks
11x 300GB FC disks
All storage protected by ZFS
2x gigabit ethernet

thats a insane setup m8

[IbaIbaUrinCus]

AMD AthlonII X4 645
16 GB Ram
few TB on raid6 = ZFS
FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE - 64bit
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Version 4.6 (build 2583) – December 6, 2011
Server Apache Tomcat/6.0.33, java 1.6.0_07, FreeBSD (572.6 MB / 719.2 MB)
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51,885 artists
25,752 albums
346,894 songs
3132.20 GB (~ 48,656 hours
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I just did upgrade to 4.6. Looks like there is improvement in memory usage management...so far much faster reaction than 4.5.