I need a few minutes of dedicated server a week, but not for hosting, just to convert ogg etc
- by talkingnews
I'm completely happy with my webhosting, it's just that I need to do one little thing they won't allow, and that's run an instance of Sox to convert about 30 mp3s to ogg files, in various directories, a couple of times a week, to be done automatically in response to the detection of the upload of an mp3. Probably looking at a minute of server time over the whole week.
I've had unhelpful suggestions on other forums like "why not leave your home PC on 24 hours a day and then use all your isp bandwidth to do this", which doesn't work for me.
I know that I can host files on, say, Amazon S3, but is there something similar for my needs?
All it would need to do would be: wget/ftp the mp3 files, convert them to ogg, ftp the files back to my hosting.
Of course, all this wouldn't be needed if there was such a thing as a compiled binary of Sox (or any mp3ogg converter) for Centos which I could upload without needing root access, but I've given up asking that one, but always open to suggestions!
