Flash Media Server 2 Shipping

呼，昨晚上課時還在說 FMS 18號就要到期了，結果mm在今天的 Max Korea 中就宣佈 FMS 正式出貨，下面是在網站上看到的購買訊息。

＊A single license of this product limits use to 100 simultaneous users and 3 virtual hosts. The number of simultaneous users can be increased by purchasing additional Professional Editions and stacking the serial number. Note, virtual hosts can not be increased in this manner.

所以答案揭曉，入門價是 professional 版 100人不限頻寬 $4500 (約台幣十四萬)，可以疊三張license也就是最高 300人同時連線。

＊Upon purchase of the product you will have access to both Windows and Linux platforms; only one platform may be installed and deployed at a time.

光碟裏同時有 windows + linux版 (不過當然同一時間只能裝一種版本)

＊This product is licensed to be run on a Single or Dual CPU server.

呃，只能裝在 1 or 2 cpu的機器上，那如果每台是三顆cpu該怎麼辦？

＊This product can not be used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) for hosting services.

這個就有意思了，mm不準 ISP或CDN使用這個版本來提供hosting服務，而是要求這種大量用戶買下面這個solution：

＊Flash Media Server 2 Origin and Edge Servers

Customers who have very large websites that require media delivery to over 1,000 simultaneous users (or 200,000 viewers per month) should consider deploying with Flash Media Server 2 Origin & Edge Servers rather than stacking Professional Editions.

Origin and Edge Servers help achieve scalable deployments by facilitating load balancing, failover, redundancy and clustering. Origin Server deployments start at $45,000.

呵呵呵，這下子精彩了，超大量用戶要從 Origin/Edge server這個版本入手，而入場價是將近一百四十八萬新台幣啊~~~

根據這些日子來為了備課寫範例而廣泛使用FMS2的心得，它的表現真是比FCS 1.5好許多，光是video 的quality就值回所有票價，更別提新出現的那一狗票 API 跟 clustering edge server support。

但誰會是我們第一個做的FMS客戶呢？呵