Wowza hosting on a dedicated server From the order to the first viewer before lunch. Your Wowza licence, our machine.

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’s published 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. Its 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. The engine runs on 64-bit Linux (x86_64 and ARM64) or Windows and needs Java 17 or 21. Every line on this page meets the minimum, 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.

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.

For what a Wowza server is usually asked to do, yes: RTMP in with the same publishing sign-in on port 1935, HLS out at the same playlist paths, the same REST API that MediaCP drives, and signed links in Wowza’s SecureToken form. It imports an existing Wowza server’s applications and can run beside it until you switch. The Cue page carries the full comparison.