Originally Posted by
Replicada
The arguement occuring before pose two equally justified comments.
However, both are slightly inaccruate.
Having 10,000 shoutcast servers may effect the server load slightly (and i mean minutely)
However It is not the server load you should worry about, it is the port's durability.
An average server port holds 10Mbps - 100Mbps, if you exceed this your port will flood and your server will drown itself. (Literally)
Causing Crashing / BAd quality streaming... the rest is can be presumed.
So Go ahead host 2,000 shoutcasts on a server for free. IT may work for a couple of hours as the port maintains multiple streams. But sooner or later, it will sink.
Watch the ports guys.
Goodluck.