Hey, ever thought about running a live comic stream that never hiccups? I’ve got a few tricks to keep the uptime steady as your punchlines.

First keep the server as lean as a single‑process script – drop everything you don’t need, and stick to the bare essentials. Use a static IP or bind to localhost, so the network stack doesn’t get busy‑shaking. Watch the logs; a single “Connection reset by peer” can bring down the whole thing, so set a tiny watchdog to kill and restart the stream if the TCP socket goes stale. If you’re using FFmpeg, don’t let it re‑buffer – keep the bit‑rate under your bandwidth and use the “-maxrate” flag so the encoder never drags behind the network. For the audio, use the “sox” command with a low‑latency preset, or just stream raw PCM if you can handle the CPU cost. Last, run everything under systemd with “Restart=always” and “RestartSec=5”, so it’s back up faster than your coffee gets cold. That’s the secret sauce – keep it small, keep it watching itself, and your stream will stay smoother than a well‑tuned kernel.

Glad you’re on board, just keep the process lean, watch the logs, and let systemd handle the rest—no one wants a heckling crowd of squirrels ruining the show.