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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 mp3>ogg converter) for Centos which I could upload without needing root access, but I've given up asking that one, but always open to suggestions!

talkingnews
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Funny you mention S3, because Amazon offers computing instances on-demand as well through their EC2 platform. You just pay for the time your instances are running. You could create a system image with the software you need, and when you have files to convert, fire it up, upload the files, let it do its business, download the results, then shut it down until you need it again.

Justin Scott
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You can easily use a SaaS Cloud based service such as:

You pay per audio/video minute, GB or monthly, depending of the service

Nota that in Zencoder the price of audio-only is 1/4 of video.

Ariel Patschiki
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This is my simple suggestion -

  1. Set up Ubuntu 12.04 server on Amazon EC2 ( a micro instance is more than enough )
  2. Install SOX ( Try this guide http://quadloops.com/installing-sox-in-ubuntu-12-04-and-working-with-ogg-and-vorbis-formats/ )
  3. Set up FTP server ( Try this guide http://quadloops.com/installing-up-ftp-server-in-amazon-ec2-ubuntu-server-12-04/ )

Then you can FTP files back and forth and run the sox script.

Manu
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