Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: It's really simple and I wrote several of these long time before, but I thought that there might be an option of serving the files w/o using PHP to read it and send the headers and chunks using only htaccess for the serving and PHP for the validation of the session. There

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Nitsan Bin-Nun
It's really simple and I wrote several of these long time before, but I thought that there might be an option of serving the files w/o using PHP to read it and send the headers and chunks using only htaccess for the serving and PHP for the validation of the session. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:58 P

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: Neh, we don't have plenty of these in Israel, don't count it in as an issue. Serving the files won't be an overkill for my harddrive / cpu usage / anything else? There is a better way to serve the files with/without PHP and keeping them outsite

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: Neh, we don't have plenty of these in Israel, don't count it in as an issue. Serving the files won't be an overkill for my harddrive / cpu usage / anything else? There is a better way to serve the files with/without PHP and keeping them outsite of the HTTP root? If you w

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Nitsan Bin-Nun
Neh, we don't have plenty of these in Israel, don't count it in as an issue. Serving the files won't be an overkill for my harddrive / cpu usage / anything else? There is a better way to serve the files with/without PHP and keeping them outsite of the HTTP root? Thanks in Advance, Nitsan On Thu

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: kyle.smith wrote: How is 700MB too big for HTTP? Ever download a linux distro? Ever benchmark FTP vs HTTP, the overhead is minimal... I download linux distro's all the time - er, whenever a new CentOS is released. It's not overhead that is the issue. It's being a

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Nitsan Bin-Nun
You are definitely right, but there is one thing that you didn't knew and I'm sure that you didn't take into account - usually the files on the server will be DVD rip's that are typically 700MB~ in size, every second movie that people will download will contain some interrupted pieces, although tha

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 13:31 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > > >> Then I suggest setting up a torrent instead of direct download. > >> You can have protected torrents. I don't know how to set them up but I > >> use them - there's a torrent site that requires I log in from t

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
Paul M Foster wrote: Then I suggest setting up a torrent instead of direct download. You can have protected torrents. I don't know how to set them up but I use them - there's a torrent site that requires I log in from the same IP as I'm running the torrent client from, for example. A torrent i

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
kyle.smith wrote: How is 700MB too big for HTTP? Ever download a linux distro? Ever benchmark FTP vs HTTP, the overhead is minimal... I download linux distro's all the time - er, whenever a new CentOS is released. It's not overhead that is the issue. It's being able to continue an interru

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:27:38PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: >> We are talking about unlimited file-size hosting so that means that we >> will have to stream the files somehow... and they will be BIG (it's >> defendant, >> about 700MB~ each) > > Then I suggest setting up a torrent instead

RE: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread kyle.smith
List Subject: Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service My bad, I'm sending a copy to the list. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: > Actually I don't much care for that, IMO 700MB~ is way too big for > HTTP, I thought of

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Nitsan Bin-Nun
My bad, I'm sending a copy to the list. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: > Actually I don't much care for that, IMO 700MB~ is way too big for HTTP, I > thought of giving away FTP links for download, but I have thought of the > following: > * First, there is a solution which

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: $archive = /path/to/some/tarball; should be $archive = '/path/to/some/tarball'; :D rest of the code is copied from a file I use to serve content that is outside the web root. That's one of my rules - the web server never has write permission to any directory ins

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: Hi List, I have been thinking for a while about setting up my own rapidshare.comclone, Few days back I went really serious with this and came up with some ideas. This is where I need your help, my partner and I have been thinking about the system that the website should ru

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Leonard Burton
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: > What is Amazon SSS?? > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Leonard Burton > wrote: >> >> Why not use something like Amazon SSS and not worry about a lot of the >> details? >> >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Nit

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread 9el
Its Amazon S3 service. Which takes care of your CPU and scaling needs of bandwidth. Good for CSS, JS and Image storing.

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Nitsan Bin-Nun
What is Amazon SSS?? On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Leonard Burton wrote: > Why not use something like Amazon SSS and not worry about a lot of the > details? > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Nitsan Bin-Nun > wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I have been thinking for a while about setting up my o

Re: [PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread haliphax
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: > Hi List, > > I have been thinking for a while about setting up my own rapidshare.comclone, > Few days back I went really serious with this and came up with some ideas. > > This is where I need your help, my partner and I have been thinking a

[PHP] Need Your Help :) I'm Just About Creating File Uploading Service

2009-04-16 Thread Nitsan Bin-Nun
Hi List, I have been thinking for a while about setting up my own rapidshare.comclone, Few days back I went really serious with this and came up with some ideas. This is where I need your help, my partner and I have been thinking about the system that the website should run on. We came to conclus