mairving — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:11:59 +0000

I once thought about doing something similar for a vet who boarded animals. That if the customer paid a little extra, they could view the pet via a webcam while they were away.

How would they access the webserver? By an IP address? By a sub-domain, sitename.domainname.com? What kind of connection would you have coming into the site? Which camera were you looking at? You wouldn't need all that beefy a machine to do this, but you could probably use some extra RAM. A P4 with 1GB of RAM should be sufficient.

andy206uk — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:05:47 +0000

I should imagine, if your gonna be streaming video then you really want to get the highest spec machines you can afford.

I'm guessing that its going to be pretty intensive on the memory and cpu usage, so thats quite important, but then doesnt streaming video require a lot of hard drive space as well? so i should imagine, you'll also need a large, fast hard drive as well.

Because your dealing with children here, it's essential that the servers have secure certificates and the content is only available over a secure connection. Of course, you'll also have to ensure that the streams are only available to registered members.

I personally would only allow new members to be added by an administrator and that only parents are given a username and password. Also, i think that the nursery should add some kind of clause to their signup agreement (i.e. what the parents sign to agree the nursery can care for them) that explains that their children will be available on the website. You don't want someone sueing the nursery now do you?