Can I issue on several servers at the same time? (youtube, facebook and a personal server?)

[comyonline]

Hello,

Thank you for accepting to be part of your community.

I have 3 questions:
1- Can I issue on several servers at the same time? (youtube, facebook and a personal server?)
2- Can I make a personal server on my IP, (how?) or can you suggest a supplier to purchase a server?
3- Do you recommend that I use a dedicated server (provided by a hosting company),?
Bonus:
4 - Can I set a commercial at the time set by me?

Thank you very much!

 

[AaronD]

Hosting video requires a LOT of bandwidth! It's a separate, dedicated stream for each individual viewer. No actual broadcast here, even though it functions as one. Each established large-scale platform also requires its own dedicated upload from you. Can your internet connection handle even that?

If you're convinced that the answer is yes, then you might look at this:

Restreamer

Live video streaming on your website without a streaming provider. Latest release v0.6.8

datarhei.github.io

OBS does not stream to multiple places at once (unless you put a URL in the filepath for recording, but that's a hack and not a solution). But you can install that or another restreamer, set up OBS to stream once to that, and set the restreamer to go to all of your destinations.

For the commercial, just have it ready in OBS as a video file, and then play it in OBS.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

I believe there is a plugin (I've not looked into it) that will stream to multiple destinations (content delivery networks [CDNs.. ex YouTube, FaceBook, Twitch, etc]) at once. As Aaron mentioned, that requires bandwidth and extra hardware resources on the part of your OBS Studio computer (especially when not all CDNs accept the same input settings. Encoding multiple outputs may not be insignificant load depending on settings (low bandwidth 1080p30 is one thing, real-time encoding of multiple 4Kp60 stream is quite another). Using a service to handle the re-encoding and distribution may well be worth it if you don't have the onsite expertise, redundant WAN links for uptime assurance, etc

You absolutely can run your own server... by someone with sufficient technical (operating system, hardware, and software) skill. beware.. this is NOT for the 'feint of heart'.. this would be a significant undertaking for a viewership of any material volume ... and gets complicated quickly (entirely doable, for someone who knows what they are doing, has the budget and network connections required, etc.... ).
this is NOT in the realm of easy end-user do-it-yourself (well, you could get it up and running, but don't expect it to stay up without real subject matter expertise). And then you have to ask yourself what uptime expectations are there? will this be a 24hr x 7days a week operation. And what happens when a computer needs a reboot? is downtime (not streaming) ok? just food for thought

OBS Studio is a compositing tool (combine multiple sources), so if one of those sources is what you consider a commercial... sure, it can handle that. Personally, I'd being looking at something like Advanced Scene Switcher (a 3rd party plugin) to automate the changing of 'Sources' to 'play the commercial (video source) at a scheduled time