Inspired by the iBroadcast thread, I started to wonder whether I could use my own web space to store my music files and make them accessible to LMS when I'm away from home.
"Surely," I thought, "I'd only need to install some kind of file server in my web space....."
"There are plenty of one-click packages provided by my web hosting service - maybe there's one that's dedicated to serving up audio files"
As the cogs slowly turned in my head I realised that "some kind of 'media server' would be ideal.....".
And that of course, is why I'm asking this question :). I'm imagining a 'MyOwnSqueezebox.com' :)
I pay for some webspace, which I think is nominally unlimited space-wise, and they don't mind what I do with it, so running a media server from it would be entirely within their rules. My library isn't big - maybe 200GB - but if that did prove to be too much I could upload my 'compressed' mirror (all FLACs converted to OGGs), which I think is around 50GB. (Neither of these will be practical to upload until OpenReach decide that it's once again safe to enter my home to install the fibre broadband that I ordered IN OCTOBER for heavens' sake)
So, what would be involved in installing LMS in my own web space?
Is it even possible?
How could I find out which binaries would work in my web space?
Is it safe to do - i.e., is the LMS password protection strong enough to prevent abuse by uninvited guests? If not, what else can I do at server level to secure it?
How would my Squeezebox players find it?
Could I set up Spotty to work in such a scenario?
What else haven't I thought about?
My experience with using my web space is limited to those one-click installs, such as Wordpress, Zen Photo etc. So any manual installation and configuration is likely to be a challenge, but I'm interested in seeing if this would work.
"Surely," I thought, "I'd only need to install some kind of file server in my web space....."
"There are plenty of one-click packages provided by my web hosting service - maybe there's one that's dedicated to serving up audio files"
As the cogs slowly turned in my head I realised that "some kind of 'media server' would be ideal.....".
And that of course, is why I'm asking this question :). I'm imagining a 'MyOwnSqueezebox.com' :)
I pay for some webspace, which I think is nominally unlimited space-wise, and they don't mind what I do with it, so running a media server from it would be entirely within their rules. My library isn't big - maybe 200GB - but if that did prove to be too much I could upload my 'compressed' mirror (all FLACs converted to OGGs), which I think is around 50GB. (Neither of these will be practical to upload until OpenReach decide that it's once again safe to enter my home to install the fibre broadband that I ordered IN OCTOBER for heavens' sake)
So, what would be involved in installing LMS in my own web space?
Is it even possible?
How could I find out which binaries would work in my web space?
Is it safe to do - i.e., is the LMS password protection strong enough to prevent abuse by uninvited guests? If not, what else can I do at server level to secure it?
How would my Squeezebox players find it?
Could I set up Spotty to work in such a scenario?
What else haven't I thought about?
My experience with using my web space is limited to those one-click installs, such as Wordpress, Zen Photo etc. So any manual installation and configuration is likely to be a challenge, but I'm interested in seeing if this would work.