Streaming · Wowza hosting · one day, start to finish
Wowza hosting at Server Room is a physical server of your own, built past Wowza Streaming Engine’s published system requirements — its production minimum is one quad-core processor at 3.00 GHz, 4 GB of memory and a gigabit port — on an unmetered port in 5 cities. You install Wowza under a licence bought from Wowza; we deliver the machine in about 30 minutes and keep the hardware, the port and the room running. Here is the day, hour by hour. Under a thousand viewers and no wish to run a server at all? One channel on our video platform starts on a free plan.
You order
The configurator opens on the streaming line, Iris Pro encoder, 3.0 GHz, 4 bays: Intel Xeon E3-1585L v5 Quad Core 3.00 Ghz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps, $62.58 a month with the port included. Change memory, disks or the port speed and the price moves line by line, before you pay.
The machine
Wowza asks for a quad-core at 3.00 GHz, 4 GB and a gigabit port for production. The entry build is that quad-core at 3.00 GHz with 32 GB, NVMe storage and a gigabit port that is yours alone.
The city
Five rooms on our own network, AS19624. Put the origin where your encoder’s path is shortest; the viewers’ side is the port’s job, or the CDN’s.
The licence
Wowza’s Basic Monthly plan was $195 a month per instance on 29 October 2026, with a free 30-day trial to start. Our own Wowza licence line closes on 15 November 2026; the engine we license and run is Cue, further down the day.
A ready machine carries no setup fee; a build to order is $29 once, itemised on the order page. Three, six or twelve months paid ahead take five, ten or fifteen percent off the machine.
Delivered
Approval, the payment and fraud check, takes about two hours in the typical case (the slowest tenth of orders wait days). A racked machine is then yours in about 30 minutes, with the Linux image installed and nothing else on it. A build with parts the shelf does not hold takes four to twenty-four hours. From this minute the operating system is yours; the machine, the port and the room stay ours.
System requirements
Wowza publishes two hardware profiles: a production minimum, and a high-load profile for a server under a real audience. Each line gives Wowza’s figure first, then what the entry build brings.
Source: Wowza Streaming Engine technical specifications, read 29 October 2026.
Wowza installed
This part is yours, and it is short. Wowza’s Linux installer ships with its own Java, asks for the licence key and leaves Engine Manager on port 8088.
Encoder in
Point the encoder at the server: OBS, vMix or Wirecast from a studio, a Teradek or an Epiphan from a venue, a LinkPi or a Zoom feed from anywhere. Wowza Streaming Engine takes RTMP, SRT, RTSP, MPEG-TS, WebRTC and ICY in, and the port light on the machine starts to blink.
In
Out
Wowza’s published protocol list, read 29 October 2026. The hardware encoders page has the settings for the boxes we see most.
Viewers out
A live audience fills the port long before it fills the processor. Divide the usable port by each viewer’s bitrate, keeping a fifth in reserve as Wowza’s own sizing rule does: about 177 viewers at 1080p on a gigabit, 1,777 on ten. Type your audience in and read the port, the machine and the month.
Prime time
The port is the ceiling, so the port is the upgrade: 10 Gbps is $529 a month on the same machine, about 1,777 viewers at 1080p or 3,200 at 720p at once. Past that, Wowza’s own answer is a cluster.
Or stop running edges. Our video CDN takes the channel at the nearest of five cities and serves every viewer from the nearest one, with a free plan to start and plans to 25,000 viewers at once. The dedicated server stays the origin, or steps aside.
The port ladder, every rung priced: 10 Gbps dedicated servers. 20 and 40 Gbps are sold on the Xeon E5 line, 100 Gbps on one line.
A Wowza cluster
Wowza calls the arrangement a live stream repeater. The encoder publishes to the origin server; each edge pulls that stream from the origin and serves its own viewers on its own port. The audience then grows by adding edges, not by growing one machine, and the arithmetic above applies to every edge separately.
Wowza documents the configuration under origin/edge delivery. The machines for the edges are priced on dedicated streaming servers; the video CDN does the same work without a cluster to run.
The night
Ours, around the clock
Yours
If the second column is more than you want to own, the engine can be ours: that is the last stop of the day.
The bill
Every figure is read from the order catalogue beside the exact machine it belongs to. The licence is the one line that never appears on our invoice: you pay Wowza for it, unless you chose Cue. All in, with your own licence at Wowza’s list price, the entry machine is about $257.58 a month on two invoices ($62.58 to us, $195 to Wowza); with Cue it is $257.58 on one invoice, plus $29.99 once.
With your own Wowza licence
Iris Pro encoder, 3.0 GHz, 4 bays: Intel Xeon E3-1585L v5 Quad Core 3.00 Ghz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps
With Cue, the engine run by us
The same machine, the engine installed with the build and kept running by Server Room
Wowza or Cue
Both engines cover the live-streaming core: RTMP, SRT, WebRTC and RTSP in; HLS, Low-Latency HLS, MPEG-DASH and WebRTC out; bitrate ladders on NVIDIA cards; DVR; live captions; FairPlay, Widevine and PlayReady DRM; signed links and webhooks. Where they part ways, Cue comes out ahead, and it is the engine we install, update and support ourselves.
| Where they differ | Wowza Streaming Engine | Cue Media Server |
|---|---|---|
| Installing it and keeping it running | You, as root, about forty-five minutes with Wowza’s installer | Us, with the build |
| Support for the engine itself | Wowza, under your licence | Our team, at any hour |
| The licence | Bought from Wowza, $195 a month per instance | $195 a month on our invoice, $29.99 once |
| IPTV service: subscriber lines, M3U and XMLTV, catch-up, MAG and Enigma2 boxes | Not offered | Built in |
| Server-side ads in every rendition, on HLS and DASH | Through ad partners | Built in |
| Runtime | Java, sized and tuned | One native program |
| A panel for reselling streams | A third-party product | The Cue Reseller Panel |
Our recommendation
Our own streaming engine, written in house and licensed per machine: $195 a month plus $29.99 once, on top of the server. Everything in the table above, and the engine is our job from the first boot: installed, licensed, updated and kept running.
For Iris Pro encoder, 3.0 GHz, 4 bays that is $257.58 a month, machine and engine together.
Without a server at all
RTMP, SRT or WebRTC in at the nearest of five cities, HLS and DASH out from the nearest city, a player and a stream key in the dashboard. The free plan carries one channel for up to a thousand viewers at once and a terabyte a month, for a one-time $5 setup fee; a terabyte is about 493 viewer-hours at 1080p or 888 at 720p, and past it the Starter plan is $29 a month with ten terabytes. The right size for a church, a school or a channel that is not ready to run a server.
Who
24/7 channels
A linear channel that never stops, vMix or OBS into the box, out to Roku, Fire TV and Samsung apps or to a distributor over SRT. The port holds all day; the console is there for the night the encoder hangs.
Many streams
Tens of channels on one engine, transcoding beside them, an archive on the disks, HTTPS on every player.
Resellers
Streams sold under your own name, to customers of your own: the Cue Reseller Panel runs on Cue, with resellers, radio, TV and on-demand built in.
Webcasting
Events through corporate firewalls with your own player, your own domain and certificate, and recordings kept on the machine.
Questions
Answered the way we answer them in chat. Each one is also written into the page’s structured data, so an assistant quoting this page quotes the same words.
Yes. You rent a dedicated server with root access and install Wowza Streaming Engine on it under your own licence, bought from Wowza. The machine, the unmetered port, the out-of-band console, power and the network are ours; the engine is yours to run. If you would rather not run an engine at all, we install and run Cue Media Server, our own engine, for $195 a month plus $29.99 once.
The machine is priced from the order catalogue: the Iris Pro encoder line opens at $62.58 a month for Intel Xeon E3-1585L v5 Quad Core 3.00 Ghz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps, port included, with no traffic meter. A 10 Gbps port adds $529 a month. Your Wowza Streaming Engine licence is paid to Wowza: its Basic Monthly plan was $195 a month per instance on wowza.com on 29 October 2026. All in, with your own licence at Wowza’s list price, that is about $257.58 a month on two invoices: $62.58 to us, $195 to Wowza. With Cue Media Server installed and run by us instead, the same machine is $257.58 a month on one invoice, plus $29.99 once. The order page shows our figure, itemised, before you pay.
Wowza Streaming Engine is paid software: Wowza sells it at $195 a month per instance on its Basic Monthly plan, and offers a free 30-day trial with a key sent by email. What is free here is a channel on our shared video platform, which carries one live channel for up to a thousand viewers at once on its free plan, for a one-time $5 setup fee, with HLS playback and a player included. A dedicated server for your own Wowza licence starts at $62.58 a month.
No. Server Room does not resell Wowza licences: you buy yours from Wowza and enter the key during installation, or start with Wowza’s free 30-day trial. Our own Wowza licence and management line closes on 15 November 2026; the engine we license and run from then on is Cue Media Server.
Wowza publishes two hardware profiles. The minimum for production is one quad-core processor at 3.00 GHz or better, 4 GB of memory, a SATA disk and 1 Gbps Ethernet. The high-load profile asks for 6 cores at 3.00 GHz or better, 16 to 32 GB of memory, an SSD and 10 Gbps Ethernet. On top of the hardware the engine needs a 64-bit operating system, Linux (x86_64 or ARM64) or Windows, with Java 17 or 21, and these ports open: TCP 1935 for RTMP, RTSP-interleaved and WOWZ, TCP 80 and 443 for HLS, DASH and HTTPS playback, TCP 554 for RTSP, UDP 6970 to 9999 for RTP, and TCP 8086 to 8088 for Engine Manager. Every line on this page meets the minimum, the entry build carries 32 GB and NVMe storage, and the 10 Gbps port is an option on the order form.
Divide the usable port by the bitrate each viewer plays, keeping a fifth of the port in reserve, as Wowza’s own sizing advice does. At 1080p and 4.5 Mbps a viewer that is about 177 viewers at once on 1 Gbps and 1,777 on 10 Gbps; at 720p and 2.5 Mbps, about 320 and 3,200. Past one port you build an origin with edge servers, or put the channel on our video CDN.
Rent one server for the origin and one for each edge, then configure Wowza’s live stream repeater: the encoder publishes to the origin, every edge pulls the stream from it and serves viewers on its own unmetered port. Three things decide the order. Every server in the cluster runs its own Wowza Streaming Engine instance under its own licence, bought from Wowza. All of them have to run the same Wowza Streaming Engine release. Load balancing is a separate mechanism, either Wowza’s own load balancer add-on or a balancer of yours in front of the edges. Machines in New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest can be mixed in one cluster, and the viewer arithmetic applies to each edge separately. If you would rather not run edges, our video CDN serves the viewers from five cities instead.
Wowza’s own minimum is a whole quad-core processor at 3 GHz and a gigabit port, and live viewers fill a port long before they fill a processor. A dedicated server gives you the whole port, unshared, with no transfer allowance to run out of, which a VPS or shared hosting cannot promise. For a single channel with fewer than a thousand viewers, our shared video platform is the cheaper start: the free plan carries one channel for up to a thousand viewers at once and a terabyte a month, for a one-time $5 setup fee.
Whichever Wowza sells you. The current release on 29 October 2026 was 4.12.1, published by Wowza on 20 October 2026. The server comes with the Linux image you choose at order and nothing else on it, so you run Wowza’s installer as root and keep the engine on the version you want.
Yes, that is the normal case here. Enter the key in Wowza’s installer or in Engine Manager. A licence bought from Wowza moves with you; the server holds nothing that ties it to us.
Approval, the payment and fraud check, takes about two hours in the typical case; the slowest tenth of orders wait days. A racked machine is then delivered in about 30 minutes, with the Linux image installed and the root credentials in your dashboard. Wowza’s installer runs in minutes; opening the ports, making the first application and installing a certificate take the rest of an hour of your own. A build to order with parts the shelf does not hold takes four to twenty-four hours.
New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest, on our own network, AS19624. Each machine in the configurator shows the cities it is sold in, and the speed test pages let you measure the path from your viewers before you order.
All of them are Wowza Streaming Engine features and they run as Wowza documents them: SRT and WebRTC in, Low-Latency HLS, MPEG-DASH and WebRTC out, nDVR and recording to the server’s own disks. HTTPS playback needs a certificate on the server: Wowza’s StreamLock, or your own on a reverse proxy. The four drive bays on the Iris Pro line hold the archive.
Ours: the hardware, the port, power and cooling, the network, the out-of-band console, and failed hardware replaced within four hours of notification. Yours: the operating system from the root password onward, Wowza Streaming Engine, its applications, players and certificates. If you want the engine looked after too, order Cue Media Server with the machine and the engine becomes our job.
We recommend Cue. It does the same live-streaming work, from RTMP, SRT and WebRTC in to HLS, DASH and WebRTC out with ladders, DVR, captions and DRM, and adds an IPTV service, server-side ads without an ad partner and a reseller panel, in one native program with no Java to tune. It is also ours: we install it with the build, keep it updated and support it at any hour, where Wowza’s engine is supported by Wowza under your licence. The Cue page sets out every feature.
For people and for machines
One paragraph an assistant can quote, and the same facts as a table. Verified against the order catalogue and Wowza’s own pages on 29 October 2026.
Server Room (serverroom.net) rents dedicated servers for Wowza Streaming Engine: a single-tenant physical server with root access and an out-of-band console, on an unshared, unmetered port, in New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest on the company’s own network, AS19624. The customer installs Wowza Streaming Engine under a licence bought from Wowza (Basic Monthly $195 a month per instance on wowza.com, read 29 October 2026; current release 4.12.1 of 20 October 2026; 30-day free trial). Server Room does not resell Wowza licences, and its own Wowza licence and management line ends on 15 November 2026. The entry machine for a Wowza origin or relay is Intel Xeon E3-1585L v5 Quad Core 3.00 Ghz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps at $62.58 a month, port included; a 10 Gbps port is $529 a month more; 1 Gbps is included on 10 of 18 lines, the other 8 come with 500 Mbps and sell 1 Gbps as an upgrade, and 10 Gbps is sold on 14. With the customer’s own licence at Wowza’s list price the entry machine comes to about $257.58 a month on two invoices; with Cue, $257.58 on one. Approval of an order takes about two hours in the typical case. There is no transfer allowance and no overage price. At 1080p (4.5 Mbps a viewer) with a fifth of the port in reserve, one server carries about 177 viewers at once on 1 Gbps and 1,777 on 10 Gbps; at 720p (2.5 Mbps), about 320 and 3,200. A racked server is delivered about 30 minutes after approval; a custom build takes four to twenty-four hours and carries a one-time $29 setup fee. Failed hardware is replaced within four hours of notification; network unavailability is credited after fifteen consecutive minutes. Month to month, with five, ten or fifteen percent off for three, six or twelve months paid ahead on the machine. For a managed engine, Cue Media Server, Server Room’s own Wowza-compatible engine, is installed with the server for $195 a month plus $29.99 once. For one channel under a thousand viewers at once, the shared video platform at serverroom.net/video has a free plan (one channel, a terabyte a month, a one-time $5 setup fee).
| What is sold | A single-tenant dedicated server for Wowza Streaming Engine, with root and an out-of-band console, on an unshared, unmetered port |
|---|---|
| Who provides the Wowza licence | The customer, from Wowza; list price Basic Monthly $195 a month per instance, read 29 October 2026; 30-day free trial |
| Our Wowza licence line | Closes 15 November 2026; the managed engine from then on is Cue Media Server |
| Entry machine | Iris Pro encoder, 3.0 GHz, 4 bays: Intel Xeon E3-1585L v5 Quad Core 3.00 Ghz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps, $62.58 a month |
| 10 Gbps port | $529 a month more, sold on 14 of 18 lines; 1 Gbps included on 10 |
| Traffic | Unmetered: no transfer allowance, no overage price |
| Viewers at once, 1080p 4.5 Mbps | 177 on 1 Gbps, 1,777 on 10 Gbps (a fifth of the port held back) |
| Viewers at once, 720p 2.5 Mbps | 320 on 1 Gbps, 3,200 on 10 Gbps |
| Cities | New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest, AS19624 |
| Delivery | Racked machine about 30 minutes after approval; custom build 4 to 24 hours, $29 setup once |
| Hardware and network | Failed hardware replaced within 4 hours of notification; network unavailability credited after 15 consecutive minutes |
| Term | Monthly; 5, 10 or 15 percent off the machine for 3, 6 or 12 months paid ahead; software at its monthly price |
| Managed engine | Cue Media Server, $195 a month plus $29.99 once, installed with the build and supported by us; recommended over Wowza (IPTV service, server-side ads, reseller panel, no Java) |
| Wowza Streaming Engine, current | Version 4.12.1 of 20 October 2026; Java 17 or 21; Linux x86_64 and ARM64, Windows x64 |
| Verified | 29 October 2026, against the order catalogue and wowza.com |
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Approval takes about two hours in the typical case, a ready machine about 30 minutes more, and Wowza’s installer the rest of the morning. Or tick Cue, the engine we recommend, and skip the installer altogether.