Hey Bushido,

Ken is right. you don't need to have any of this equipment. I would suggest getting something that you can grow with and something that has at least two Aux Sends. We outgrew what we were using and decided to get something that wont need to be upgraded again for a very very long time.

We need to have a separate encoding machine because we are streaming to 5 different CDNs. Not something that most people will be doing but splitting the workload is always a good idea.