Wowza hosting
A physical server that belongs to your account alone, running Wowza Streaming Engine on the licence you hold, with the machine, its power and its network looked after by a person on our team at any hour, usually online within 24 hours of a verified payment. Nobody counts the traffic that leaves it. Prefer an engine we license and run? Cue, our own, answers Wowza's playback addresses and REST API, installed and managed for $195/mo.
What you get
The engine
Order the machine, then install the engine as root with your key, or ask in chat and a person installs it on request. Prefer an engine we license and run? Cue, our own, answers Wowza's playback addresses and REST API, installed and managed for $195/mo.
The machine
A whole physical server. No other customer's stream shares the processor or the port.
The port
Unshared at the access switch. A busy month costs the same as a quiet one.
The care
Hardware, network and operating system, at any hour; failed parts replaced under our service agreement. The Wowza engine is covered by Wowza's own support plan; Cue by us. Faster response tiers from $9 a month.
The control
Your applications, stream targets, players and scripts stay in your hands, and Wowza's browser manager is yours.
Where and how long
Each machine says which cities it is sold in. There is no contract, and three, six or twelve months paid ahead take 5%, 10% or 15% off the machine.
Part by part
Follow the signal from your encoder to your viewers. Each stop lights the part of the machine it leans on, which is also the part worth paying for.
01
Wowza Streaming Engine accepts RTMP, SRT, WebRTC, RTSP and MPEG-TS. A laptop running OBS or vMix, or a box on the camera, points at your server's address and password. Our Wowza Streaming Engine tutorial shows every field, and the encoder tutorials cover nine encoders.
02
If your encoder already sends the qualities you want, Wowza only repackages them into HLS, LL-HLS, MPEG-DASH, WebRTC or RTMP, and the processor stays calm. Turning one feed into several qualities is the heavy job; Wowza does it on the processor, and your subscription includes ten transcoded channels. For many channels at once, a GPU transcoding server does it in hardware.
03
Wowza's nDVR records a live stream while people pause and rewind it, and it comes with every licensed instance. Recordings and on-demand files sit on your server's own disks: one hour at 6 Mbps is about 2.7 GB, so size the disks for the hours you keep. Our Wowza VOD tutorial covers on-demand files.
04
Multiply the people by the bitrate each one plays, and keep the total under 80 percent of the port: that is Wowza's own sizing advice. At 1080p and 6 Mbps, a 1 Gbps port carries about 133 viewers at once and a 10 Gbps port about 1,333; at 720p and 4 Mbps, about 200 on 1 Gbps. Past one port, grow into a cluster: one origin takes the encoder, edges serve viewers from their own ports, and every server counts as one instance on your Wowza subscription.
Price it
Pick the job and the audience. The meter shows the port the audience needs; the ticket shows the machine, the licence and the month. Read from the same catalogue the checkout bills from; the checkout is the quote.
What it costs
Two parts, and only one is on our invoice: the machine, from $62.58/mo with a 1 Gbps port included and its own one-time setup ($29 on most lines, shown at checkout). Your Wowza licence is bought from Wowza. If you would rather have an engine we license and keep running, Cue is $195/mo per server plus $29.99 once.
Your Wowza licence on our server
from $62.58/mo
Wowza's Basic Monthly plan is $195 per instance, $295 once for a single month, perpetual by quote: wowza.com/pricing, read on 29 October 2026.
Cue, licensed and managed by us
from $257.58/mo
The Cue page says what it runs and what it does not yet.
A free channel on our video service
free
The video page has the plans.
Paying three, six or twelve months ahead takes 5%, 10% or 15% off the machine and its port; software lines, Cue included, cost the same every month. One Wowza instance is one copy of the engine on one machine, so a cluster of three servers is three instances on your subscription.
| Machine | Port included | Cities | Machine, your licence | With Cue managed | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iris Pro encoder, 2.9 GHzIntel Xeon E3-1284L v4 Quad Core 2.90 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA-SSD 240 GB · 500 Mbps | 500 Mbps | New York, Bucharest, Amsterdam, San Francisco | $46.18/mo | $241.18/mo | Order Iris Pro encoder, 2.9 GHz |
| AMD Opteron 6300, one or two socketsAMD Opteron 6366 HE Hexadeca Core 1.80 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA 500 GB · 500 Mbps | 500 Mbps | New York, Bucharest, Miami | $51.86/mo | $246.86/mo | Order AMD Opteron 6300, one or two sockets |
| Iris Pro encoder, 1.8 GHzIntel Xeon E3-1284L v3 Quad Core 1.80 GHz · 16 GB DDR3 · 1 × SATA-SSD 240 GB · 500 Mbps | 500 Mbps | New York, Bucharest | $52.18/mo | $247.18/mo | Order Iris Pro encoder, 1.8 GHz |
| Iris Pro encoder, 3.0 GHz, 4 baysIntel Xeon E3-1585L v5 Quad Core 3.00 Ghz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps | 1 Gbps | New York, Bucharest, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Miami | $62.58/mo | $257.58/mo | Order Iris Pro encoder, 3.0 GHz, 4 bays |
| Xeon D, 8 or 16 coresIntel Xeon D-1548 Octa Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps | 1 Gbps | New York, Miami, Bucharest, Amsterdam, San Francisco | $62.58/mo | $257.58/mo | Order Xeon D, 8 or 16 cores |
| Xeon E5 v1/v2, dual socketIntel Xeon E5-2630L Hex Core 2.00 GHz · 32 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | 1 Gbps | New York, Bucharest, Miami | $70.93/mo | $265.93/mo | Order Xeon E5 v1/v2, dual socket |
| Xeon E5 v3/v4, dual socketIntel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Octo Core 2.10 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | 1 Gbps | New York, Bucharest, San Francisco, Miami, Amsterdam | $73.47/mo | $268.47/mo | Order Xeon E5 v3/v4, dual socket |
| Xeon Scalable, dual socketIntel Xeon Silver 4110 8 Core 2.10 GHz · 16 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA-SSD 240 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | 1 Gbps | New York, Bucharest, San Francisco, Miami, Amsterdam | $83.67/mo | $278.67/mo | Order Xeon Scalable, dual socket |
| Eight-core encoder, up to 5 GHzIntel Xeon E-2286M 8 CORE 2.40 GHz · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × NVMe-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps | 1 Gbps | Bucharest | €105.99/mo | €300.99/mo | Order Eight-core encoder, up to 5 GHz |
| Xeon E5-4600 v1/v2, quad socket4 × Intel Xeon E5-4650L Octo Core 2.60 GHz · 64 GB DDR3 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 500 Mbps | 500 Mbps | New York, Bucharest, Miami | $109.69/mo | $304.69/mo | Order Xeon E5-4600 v1/v2, quad socket |
| Xeon E5-4600 v3/v4, quad socket4 × Intel Xeon E5-4650 v3 12 Core 2.10 GHz · 128 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | 1 Gbps | New York, Bucharest, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam | $186.37/mo | $381.37/mo | Order Xeon E5-4600 v3/v4, quad socket |
| AMD EPYC, up to 128 coresAMD EPYC 7413 24 CORE 2.65 GHz 128MB L3 CACHE · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × SATA-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps | 1 Gbps | New York, Bucharest | $217.59/mo | $412.59/mo | Order AMD EPYC, up to 128 cores |
| Ampere Altra, 64 ARM coresAmpere Altra Q64-22 2.2GHz 64 Core · 32 GB DDR4 · 1 × SATA-SSD 240 GB · 1 Gbps | 1 Gbps | New York, Bucharest | $288.58/mo | $483.58/mo | Order Ampere Altra, 64 ARM cores |
| Xeon Gold, quad socket4 × Intel Xeon Gold 6130 16 Core 2.10 GHz · 128 GB DDR4 · 2 × SATA 500 GB (RAID 1) · 1 Gbps | 1 Gbps | New York, Bucharest, San Francisco | $409.38/mo | $604.38/mo | Order Xeon Gold, quad socket |
Requirements
| Part | Wowza minimum | Wowza high load | Here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Processor | one quad-core, 3.00 GHz or faster | six cores, 3.00 GHz or faster | our streaming line is a 3.0 GHz quad-core with graphics on the chip; the bigger lines trade clock speed for more cores, which is what transcoding wants |
| Memory | 4 GB | 16 to 32 GB | chosen per machine, from 16 GB |
| Disk | SATA hard disk | SATA SSD | hard disks, SSD or NVMe, one to many bays |
| Network | 1 Gbps Ethernet | 10 Gbps Ethernet | a port of your own, unmetered; 10 Gbps is $529/mo more on the lines that carry it |
| System | 64-bit Linux or Windows that runs Java 17 or 21 | the same | you install the engine on the Linux image you choose, or we do it on request |
Wowza's figures are its own, from the Streaming Engine technical specifications, read on 29 October 2026. The same sizing article notes that a bare-metal server can use up to 80 percent of its network bandwidth where a virtual machine tops out lower: one reason to run the engine on a machine of your own. If you knew the product as Wowza Media Server, that was its name before version 4.
Who does what
First stream
Price it above and open it in the configurator. Add Cue to the order if you want the engine licensed and managed by us. Pay by card, PayPal, wire or crypto.
Once your payment is verified, a person brings the server online with the operating system you chose and emails your login details, usually within 24 hours; with Cue, the engine is installed and licensed first. Check your spam folder if they seem late.
Install Wowza Streaming Engine as root with your licence key, or ask in chat and we install it on request. Then point OBS, vMix or a hardware encoder at the server over RTMP or SRT: our Wowza Streaming Engine tutorial walks through it field by field, and the Wowza VOD tutorial covers on-demand files.
Questions
Eighteen short answers. If yours is not here, the chat is open.
No. Wowza Streaming Engine is licensed software that you buy from Wowza; this page is the machine it runs on. If you only want to stream one channel and administer nothing, our video service has a free plan: one channel on our own engine, delivered by our CDN and provisioned for 1,000 viewers at once.
At Primcast they are the same thing: a dedicated server, run by us, on which Wowza Streaming Engine runs with your own licence. Some providers use "Wowza hosting" for a channel on a shared Wowza server; we do not sell one. Our shared video service runs on our own engine and is on the video page.
The machine is from $62.58 a month (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, 1 Gbps port included), with its own one-time setup at checkout, and that is all we bill you for Wowza. The licence is Wowza's: $195 a month per instance on its Basic Monthly plan, read on 29 October 2026. If you choose Cue as the engine we license and manage instead, add $195/mo and $29.99 once: from $257.58 a month all in.
No. From 15 November 2026 we no longer resell Wowza licences or support the Wowza engine itself; you buy the licence from Wowza, and Wowza's support plan covers it. The engine we license, install and keep running is Cue, which answers Wowza's playback addresses and REST API.
From wowza.com, with an account there: Basic Monthly at $195 per instance, One Month at $295 once, annual and perpetual plans by quote, read on 29 October 2026; a subscription includes ten transcoded channels. One instance is one copy of the engine on one machine. The key activates on your server here and stays yours wherever the server is.
Wowza's minimum is one quad-core processor at 3 GHz or faster, 4 GB of memory, a SATA disk and 1 Gbps Ethernet. For high load it asks for six cores at 3 GHz or faster, 16 to 32 GB of memory, an SSD and 10 Gbps Ethernet, on 64-bit Linux or Windows with Java 17 or 21. The table above puts those beside what you can order here.
Start from the port: viewers times bitrate, kept under 80 percent of it. At 1080p and 6 Mbps a viewer, a 1 Gbps port carries about 133 people at once and a 10 Gbps port about 1,333. Add processor cores only if the server makes extra qualities, and disk only if it records.
Yes. One engine on one server runs as many applications and channels as the processor and the port allow; Wowza's licence counts instances, not channels or viewers. Transcoding is the exception: your subscription includes ten transcoded channels, and more are Wowza's overage.
Yes. Wowza provides a StreamLock certificate with your licence for the engine's own hostname, set up from your Wowza account; and since you have root, your own certificate and domain work too.
Wowza's browser manager shows the connections on each application as they happen, and its REST API hands the same figures to any tool of yours. Reports by country, device or quality are not part of the engine; a panel or analytics tool of your own reads them from the logs.
One origin takes your encoder; edge servers pull the stream from it and serve viewers from their own ports. Every server in the cluster counts as one instance on your Wowza subscription, and one key activates all of them. The estimator above says when an audience needs more than one server; tell us the number in chat and we will size the origin and the edges with you.
The machine is usually online within 24 hours of a verified payment, with your login details by email. Then you install Wowza Streaming Engine as root with your key, or ask in chat and a person installs it on request. Choose Cue and the engine is installed and licensed before the login details go out.
Any Linux image in the configurator, such as Ubuntu, Debian or AlmaLinux, or Windows Server, which the configurator sells per core. Wowza runs on both; Cue runs on Linux and on Windows Server 2022 or 2025.
Neither is sold on this page. Our service agreement pays credits when the network is down rather than promising a percentage, and for attacks you put a scrubbing service or a CDN in front of the server.
Yes. Cue installs next to Wowza on spare ports and leaves your live channels alone; it imports a Wowza server's setup and answers the same playback addresses and REST API, so encoders and players need no change. One switch moves everything over, and one switch moves it back. Nimble Streamer runs on the same machines too; see dedicated streaming servers.
A dedicated server is billed from its first month, and there is no contract after it. Wowza issues a trial licence key on its own site, so you can try the engine on the machine before buying a licence. The free way to try streaming with us is a channel on our video service, which runs on our own engine.
Until 15 November 2026 we resold Wowza's licence with management on these servers. From that day the licence is bought from Wowza by you, and the engine we license and manage is Cue, which keeps Wowza's playback addresses and API; customers on the old line were moved at the same price.
In New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Bucharest, on our own network. Each machine in the list shows the cities you can order it in, and the data centers page measures the latency from where you are.
Facts
Short and quotable, for people comparing providers and for assistants answering on their behalf. Prices are read from the order catalogue when this page is built.
Elsewhere
Price it, order it, and your login details arrive by email, usually within 24 hours of payment; then Wowza goes on with your key, or Cue goes on with ours.