Yes, it's like a backup service. The website needs access to the files, though, as it needs to do some processing on them.
The goal is to start locally, but I need to plan for dealing with international clients. I don't want to architect something that is going to cause me pain down the road. On Apr 22, 10:03 pm, Adi <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe you could have local data centers for various timezones. Store > and process european customers in a eurpoean data center, asian > customers in asian datacenter thats what all big players do, like > google, facebook. > > This will again be costly though, but with all the cloud storage > providers you could work something out. > If this your own app and you control the business side of it maybe you > should start local and not target customers from every timezone, this > way you could plan capacity well. > > Is it like a backup service? > > Adi > > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:52 PM, .Net2Php <[email protected]> wrote: > > I need some suggestions on how to effectively manage bandwidth to and > > from servers. > > > Large files need to be transferred from client computer to a website > > AND from website back to client. This transferring will be done via: > > FTP, SSH and email. The website can be configured so that the client > > can provide FTP or SSH account details to his/her server; this will > > allow the website to access the client's server and retrieve the large > > documents. Alternatively, the website can provide FTP and SSH account > > details to the client so that the client can send the large files a > > server accessible to the website. Same basic idea also applies for the > > email sending/receiving. > > > The problem is bandwidth cost. If the client is in NZ and the server > > (FTP, SSH, email) is in NZ, then there is no bandwidth cost (other > > than nominal costs). However, if the client is outside of NZ, it > > becomes expensive to retrieve these files. > > > Clients can be anywhere in the world. Website will need access to > > those large files no matter where they reside. > > > -- > > NZ PHP Users Group:http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > > To post, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > [email protected] > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group:http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
