Server & Software Requirements for xCams

Owned by Steve Smith
Last updated: May 26, 2024
2 min read

General information

xCams is designed with 4 server components separately

  • API (API)

  • Web user (NextJS)

  • Admin panel (NextJS)

  • Media server (ant media)

xCams can be deployed to any Linux servers, cloud service such as AWS, Digital ocean, Linode, etc…

Minimum Server Requirements

  • 1 single server which we will install everything include Media server

    • 8GB of RAM

    • 2 vCPU core

    • 80 HDD

    • Ubuntu 18.04 OS

  • Or 2 separate servers for Web (API, web user, admin panel) and Media server

    • Web

      • 4GB of RAM

      • 2 vCPU core

      • 80 HDD

    • Media server

      • 4GB of RAM

      • 2 vCPU core

      • 80 HDD

      • Ubuntu 18.04 OS

  • Or 3-4 separate server for API, web user + admin, media server

Software requirements

xCams architecture needs these softwares

Ensure all softwares above are running before setup source code

Notes for Media server

  • xCams provides Admin panel to configure ant media settings, it means you can change to another config without customization

  • In default, xCams uses Ant media community version, you can upgrade to Enterprise version without changing code

  • Ant media supports cluster, scaling. If you need low latency for live streaming with webrtc - webrtc viewer or support a lot of traffics for viewers we should purchase for Ant Enterprise license.

Notes for File storage

  • xCams does not support for cloud storage aka S3 service (such as AWS S3 or Digital ocean spaces), you should use S3 service if you have much files or for scale feature

  • Or we can use separate for files only

Notes for Pricing

  • xCams setup includes price for: API, web user, Ant media community version or Enterprise with single cluster

  • xCams setup does not include price for

    • File server for S3 server

    • Media server scaling setup

  • For Media server scaling setup we need to know

    • Which server / services you will setup:

      • AWS Load balancer - for this option we need to know about AWS region which we will setup (closest to client’s country is the best)

      • Or use nginx - for this option we need info (IP, root access) for media db server, publisher server, viewer servers