Dedicated server as streaming device

[cryptoadventures]

Hi,

I would like to start streaming by running trading software on a server and have OBS on that same server. As far as I know all dedicated servers that are up for rent don't have GPUs so encoding will all be CPU bases.

What do you guys think I'll need as minimum server specs to make this work? The trading software itself does not need much but the videoencoding in 1080p could cause some issues.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

First - if you are referring to public cloud Infrastructure as a Service type servers, h/w GPUs are an option at most top tier providers
BUT... I don't see the use case for using OBS... this not being my area.. so I may be completely off-base here
- I'd think you'd run the trading software where it makes sense (low latency to exchange, etc)
- you then want to see that screen.... lot of remote/virtual display technologies...
- then there is taking that screen info and packaging it up with other content (reason to use OBS) and either recording and/or streaming
the benefit of trading server also being streaming server lack of a point-of-failure if 2 different devices but now you have computational load of OBS to consider, and would that impact trading?

See OBS requirement for GPU - Wiki - System Requirements | OBS (obsproject.com)
And if planning to use RDP then see other recent threads on the implication for that in conjunction with OBS