AZ Streaming Server VDS-Essential, $ 149.95/mo. on Linux Dedicated

VDS-Essential has been added on May 7, 2026, Aggregate Rating (1 out of 10 from 2 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔧 Category :	StreamingFully ManagedDDoS Protection
✍️ Support Options :	Available 24/7
⚑ Targeting :	FR US
🚀 Uptime :	99.9 %

See also initial VDS-Essential plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

AZ-StreamingServer is a specialist streaming-hosting provider under the AZ-Network umbrella, focused mainly on internet radio, live video streaming, WebTV, VOD, reseller streaming platforms, and managed dedicated media servers. The service is aimed at broadcasters, online radio stations, churches, educators, IPTV/WebTV operators, agencies, and streaming resellers that need a ready media-hosting environment instead of a generic shared hosting account.

The company has operated in the streaming field since 2007, giving it a more mature profile than many smaller streaming-only providers. Their core catalog includes SHOUTcast Hosting, Icecast Hosting, CentovaCast Hosting, AzuraCast Hosting, Live Video Hosting, WebTV, VOD Hosting, Flussonic Hosting, MediaCP Hosting, Radio Reseller Hosting, Video Streaming Reseller Hosting, Audio Dedicated Servers, Video Dedicated Servers, and Hybrid Media Servers.

For radio customers, AZ-StreamingServer supports SHOUTcast, Icecast, AutoDJ, playlist scheduling, live DJ connections, HTML5 players, listener statistics, SSL streaming, and multiple audio formats such as MP3, AAC, Ogg, Opus, and AAC+. CentovaCast remains the classic radio control panel option, while AzuraCast adds a more modern private-cloud radio environment with browser-based WebDJ, multi-station management, podcasting support, custom domains, and isolated resources.

For video customers, the platform covers live streaming, WebTV playlists, VOD libraries, HLS delivery, RTMP ingest/output, simulcasting to YouTube/Facebook/Twitch, HTML5 players, viewer reports, SSL, stream recording, GeoIP/country locking, IP/domain locking, and nDVR rewind on higher-end configurations. The technical stack includes NGINX-RTMP, Flussonic, MediaCP, and VDOPanel, making the service much stronger for practical media delivery than for ordinary web hosting.

The reseller side is also well developed. Radio resellers can use CentovaCast, MediaCP, or EverestPanel plans, with white-label branding, private nameservers, own domain/logo support, SSL, WHMCS automation, listener reporting, AutoDJ allocations, and account limits depending on plan. Video resellers get white-label video streaming for Live Streaming, WebTV, VOD, and hybrid media accounts, with CDN-style delivery, WHMCS integration, branded panels, and reseller-friendly reporting.

Dedicated media servers are a major part of the offer. The Audio Dedicated Servers are fully managed and optimized for larger broadcasters that need dedicated CPU, RAM, storage, and network capacity. The Video Dedicated Servers target heavier Live TV, VOD, WebTV, IPTV, and OTT use cases, with MediaCP or VDOPanel, stream recording, simulcasting, ad support, optional load balancing, and scalable viewer capacity. The Hybrid Media Servers combine radio and video services on one managed platform, which is useful for companies running both audio stations and video channels under one brand.

AZ-Network also operates related service brands. AZ-Webhost (az-webhost.com) covers traditional cPanel web hosting, WordPress hosting, reseller hosting, domains, SSL, LiteSpeed, NVMe storage, Softaculous, WordPress Toolkit, Imunify360, and web hosting migration. AZ-Servers / AZ-Cloud (az-servers.com) is positioned for cloud/server infrastructure, although the service appears to be in maintenance or under-construction mode. CityStaticVPN (citystaticvpn.com) provides dedicated static IP VPN services with WireGuard/OpenVPN and city-based IP choices.

Overall, AZ-StreamingServer is best understood as a media-streaming infrastructure provider first, with classic web hosting handled through the sister AZ-Webhost brand.