# Best Configuration for live audio streaming

**URL:** https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/best-configuration-for-live-audio-streaming/346
**Category:** Help!
**Created:** [June 3, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/best-configuration-for-live-audio-streaming/346 "2016-06-03T17:21:13Z")
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### Author: ![sacsmitty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.haproxy.org/sacsmitty/32/82_2.png) [@sacsmitty](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/sacsmitty)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/best-configuration-for-live-audio-streaming/346/1 "2016-06-03T17:21:13Z")

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Discovered HAProxy about a month ago and I LOVE it. I built my own streaming CDN on Ubuntu and things are working well. In an effort to optimize my configuration, I was hoping to pick the brains of all of you on the best way to handle streaming connections with HAProxy.

I’m running v1.6.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit and all is well, just want to make sure I’m using best practices.

Here is my config:

> global  
> log /dev/log local0  
> log /dev/log local1 notice  
> chroot /var/lib/haproxy  
> stats socket /run/haproxy/admin.sock mode 660 level admin  
> stats timeout 30s  
> user haproxy  
> group haproxy  
> daemon

> ```
> # Default SSL material locations
> ca-base /etc/ssl/certs
> crt-base /etc/ssl/private
> 
> ```

> ```
> # Default ciphers to use on SSL-enabled listening sockets.
> # For more information, see ciphers(1SSL). This list is from:
> # https://hynek.me/articles/hardening-your-web-servers-ssl-ciphers/
> ssl-default-bind-ciphers ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:EC$
> ssl-default-bind-options no-sslv3
> 
> ```

> defaults  
> log global  
> mode http  
> option forwardfor  
> option http-server-close  
> option httplog  
> option dontlognull  
> maxconn 50000  
> timeout connect 10000  
> timeout client 50000  
> timeout server 50000  
> errorfile 400 /etc/haproxy/errors/400.http  
> errorfile 403 /etc/haproxy/errors/403.http  
> errorfile 408 /etc/haproxy/errors/408.http  
> errorfile 500 /etc/haproxy/errors/500.http  
> errorfile 502 /etc/haproxy/errors/502.http  
> errorfile 503 /etc/haproxy/errors/503.http  
> errorfile 504 /etc/haproxy/errors/504.http

> frontend LHR\_Load\_Balancer  
> bind \*:8000  
> stats uri /haproxy?stats  
> stats realm Haproxy\ Statistics  
> stats auth UID:PASSWORD  
> reqadd X-Forwarded-Proto:\ http  
> default\_backend ICY\_Cluster

> backend ICY\_Cluster  
> balance leastconn  
> server s1 FQDN:8000 weight 40 check  
> server s2 FQDN:8000 weight 40 check  
> server s3 FQDN:8000 weight 20 check

Thank you in advance for your feedback.