# How many connections/inputs per server

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-connections-inputs-per-server/39502>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [November 6, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-connections-inputs-per-server/39502 "2012-11-06T13:51:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_James](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@Kent\_James](https://community.wowza.com/u/Kent_James)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-connections-inputs-per-server/39502/1 "2012-11-06T13:51:24Z")

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Hi. If I have a number of MPEG4 live feeds coming into a single streaming server, that is a decent size…32GB RAM, quad processor etc, how many connections should I have come in?

Is there a limit or a recommendation of limit for performance. I want to publish in formats for iPhone, blackberry, Flash etc from the same server. Basically looking to see if I should connect 1, 10 or 100 feeds to a single server. thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-connections-inputs-per-server/39502/2 "2012-11-06T23:34:47Z")

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The number of incoming streams is limited by cpu and ram, whereas outgoing streams is usually limited by bandwidth. So a very robust server is required, a late model quad or dual quad cpu, 8-16g ram, 64bit OS/Java, and [well tuned](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-performance-tuning). You have to test to find the limit. I have heard of over 100 incoming streams on very robust servers

Richard