Streaming Server Hosting — Optimized for Video Delivery

A streaming server has fundamentally different requirements than a web server, database server, or application server. Web servers handle many short-lived HTTP requests with small response sizes. Streaming servers must sustain continuous, high-throughput data output for hundreds or thousands of simultaneous connections, each consuming megabits of bandwidth per second for the duration of their viewing session.

This sustained output model demands specific hardware characteristics. CPUs need sufficient cores to handle concurrent stream management and optional transcoding without bottlenecks. RAM must be large enough to cache frequently-accessed content and maintain stream buffers. Storage must deliver consistent sequential read performance at high throughput without latency spikes that cause buffering. And the network must provide enough bandwidth with low enough latency to serve all concurrent viewers without quality degradation.

AnubizHost streaming servers are engineered with all of these requirements addressed at the hardware level. We select CPUs with high core counts and streaming-friendly instruction sets, deploy DDR4/DDR5 ECC RAM in generous amounts, use NVMe SSD storage that maintains performance under continuous read load, and connect everything to 1Gbps or 10Gbps unmetered network ports with premium transit and peering.

Our streaming servers support every major streaming software platform and delivery protocol. For live streaming, we support nginx-rtmp, Wowza Streaming Engine, Flussonic, Ant Media Server, and custom FFmpeg-based pipelines. For on-demand delivery, our servers work with any HTTP-based delivery system including HLS, DASH, CMAF, and progressive download.

We pre-install and configure your preferred streaming software upon request, saving you the setup time and ensuring optimal configuration for our hardware. Our team has deployed and tuned every major streaming platform on our infrastructure and can recommend the best software for your specific use case — whether that is low-latency live streaming, adaptive bitrate VOD delivery, or multi-protocol simulcasting.

Protocol-level optimization is included in our server tuning. TCP stack settings are configured for high-throughput streaming patterns, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are enabled where supported, and network buffer sizes are tuned to match the bandwidth-delay product of typical viewer connections. These low-level optimizations reduce buffering events and improve stream startup time compared to default server configurations.

A single well-configured streaming server can serve thousands of concurrent viewers, but when your audience grows beyond single-server capacity, you need a scalable infrastructure strategy. AnubizHost provides the building blocks and expertise to scale your streaming operation from a single server to a multi-node delivery network.

Our recommended scaling architecture uses an origin server that handles ingest and transcoding, with multiple edge servers that cache and deliver content to viewers. This architecture scales linearly — each additional edge server adds proportional viewer capacity — and provides geographic distribution that reduces latency for diverse audiences. We offer edge servers in multiple European locations with plans for additional global locations.

Load balancing across your streaming server fleet can be handled through DNS-based geographic routing, HTTP redirect balancing, or application-level distribution depending on your streaming software. Our team helps you design and implement the right balancing strategy for your platform, ensuring viewers are directed to the optimal server automatically.

Our streaming server hosting is available in VPS and dedicated configurations to match operations of every size. VPS plans start at $22.50/mo with dedicated CPU cores, guaranteed RAM, NVMe storage, and unmetered 1Gbps bandwidth. These plans are ideal for small streaming platforms, testing environments, and edge delivery nodes in larger architectures.

Dedicated streaming servers start with quad-core processors, 32GB RAM, dual NVMe drives, and 1Gbps unmetered bandwidth. High-performance configurations offer 10Gbps ports, up to 128GB RAM, multi-core processors optimized for transcoding, and terabytes of NVMe storage for large VOD libraries. Custom configurations are available for operations with specific hardware requirements.

Every plan includes DDoS protection, full root access, offshore location, and 24/7 support from engineers who understand streaming workloads. Provisioning is fast — VPS instances in minutes, dedicated servers within hours. Start streaming on AnubizHost today and experience the difference that purpose-built streaming infrastructure makes for your viewers.