Volkers central server works best for our band. Good ping and little dropouts.
Since we do not want to use this permanently, we wanted to rent a similar private server.
A previous article shows that Volkers Central-Server is based on the OpenVZ 7 package from 1fire.hosting (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM).
I do not use a lowlatency Ubuntu, just the normal one.
Interesting. Maybe 1fire treats the Virtual Servers differently. Maybe sometimes you have luck and get a place on a server which is not so crowded. But this is just guessing...
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Hi Peter,
It is exactly the same for me! I also rented one from fire1 and set it up successfully, according to the manual on the wiki. However, the auto jitter buffer on my fire1 server is between 6 and 7, whereas for another server (central, VIERundICH, etc) the jitter buffer is only 2 to 3 (and consequently I get a much better overall delay). I am not using the low-latency kernel, so it shouldn't depend on this.
What factors can make the server jitter buffer increase?
I tested the upload and download speeds from the server, they are >90Mbit/s for various locations. This should be fine (and the ping times, too, as you said).
Cheers,
Konrad
Last edit: Konrad Viebahn 2020-04-25
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Volkers central server works best for our band. Good ping and little dropouts.
Since we do not want to use this permanently, we wanted to rent a similar private server.
A previous article shows that Volkers Central-Server is based on the OpenVZ 7 package from 1fire.hosting (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM).
So we rented an identical package from 1fire.hosting: https://1fire.hosting/vserver/openvz7/ (1 vCPU, 1GB RAM option)
For testing purposes, the server is currently (April 24, 2020) marked as public and is called:
1FireTestServer
The ping is very good but unfortunately there are a lot more dropouts compared to the Central Server ☹
The configuration is:
Headless server (without Jack stuff)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (low-latency kernel linux-lowlatency-hwe-18.04)
Set up according to https://github.com/corrados/jamulus/wiki/Server---Linux
May have something to do with the version of the server ?
Jamulus Sever Version = Build from April 24th, 2020 (3.5.?)
Is there any setting / parameter / OS / trick to prevent the dropouts?
Thank you
Peter
Last edit: Peter Hibbe 2020-04-24
I do not use a lowlatency Ubuntu, just the normal one.
Interesting. Maybe 1fire treats the Virtual Servers differently. Maybe sometimes you have luck and get a place on a server which is not so crowded. But this is just guessing...
Hi Peter,
It is exactly the same for me! I also rented one from fire1 and set it up successfully, according to the manual on the wiki. However, the auto jitter buffer on my fire1 server is between 6 and 7, whereas for another server (central, VIERundICH, etc) the jitter buffer is only 2 to 3 (and consequently I get a much better overall delay). I am not using the low-latency kernel, so it shouldn't depend on this.
What factors can make the server jitter buffer increase?
I tested the upload and download speeds from the server, they are >90Mbit/s for various locations. This should be fine (and the ping times, too, as you said).
Cheers,
Konrad
Last edit: Konrad Viebahn 2020-04-25