# Building a new Wowza server: recommendations?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/building-a-new-wowza-server-recommendations/41773>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [April 13, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/building-a-new-wowza-server-recommendations/41773 "2015-04-13T13:37:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Trent\_Three](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@Trent\_Three](https://community.wowza.com/u/Trent_Three)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/building-a-new-wowza-server-recommendations/41773/1 "2015-04-13T13:37:19Z")

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We previously had a Wowza server running on Windows Server 2003. That machine crashed and we’re in the process of rebuilding a new server. I want to do this under Linux, preferably Debian.

Can anyone give me recommendations on the best way to set this up and what options, packages, OS version I should use?

The server I’m going to run for this is a HP DL360g5 with dual XEONs and a RAID5 array of 146gb SAS 10k drives.

Does this sound reasonable? Any issues or advice or recommendations?

Thanks for your help!!

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**Author:** ![Michelle\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/michelle_b/32/394_2.png) [@Michelle\_B](https://community.wowza.com/u/Michelle_B)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/building-a-new-wowza-server-recommendations/41773/2 "2015-04-13T15:40:01Z")

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Hi trent3,

Your server requirements would depend a lot on your workflow.

- If you would be using MediaCache, then SSD is highly recommended.

- If you would be transcoding streams, then a hefty CPU is another recommendation, possibly supplemented with hardware acceleration.

- Ideally, you should run Wowza Streaming Engine on a dedicated server (no other services running).

- Make sure that you install the latest Java package from Oracle.

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/building-a-new-wowza-server-recommendations/41773/3 "2015-04-17T12:11:31Z")

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Hi,

please see the article below for installation details.

[How to install and configure Wowza Streaming Engine](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-install-and-configure-wowza-streaming-engine#installJava)

Jason

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**Author:** ![Trent\_Three](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@Trent\_Three](https://community.wowza.com/u/Trent_Three)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/building-a-new-wowza-server-recommendations/41773/4 "2015-04-13T16:56:07Z")

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The server is dedicated to Wowza.

This same hardware was running Windows Server 2003 with Wowza and was doing fine. I figure if I switch over to Debian Linux, I can get even more performance, not that I noticed any problems before.

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**Author:** ![Trent\_Three](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@Trent\_Three](https://community.wowza.com/u/Trent_Three)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/building-a-new-wowza-server-recommendations/41773/5 "2015-04-16T15:06:44Z")

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What’s the best way to install the latest java packages?

Can I do:

apt-get install default-jre

apt-get install default-jdk

?