Excellent, thanks both for the suggestions. I'd like to continue hosting it myself if for no other reason than I want to learn how to manage some of the hardware, software and operating systems that I otherwise don't get much exposure to. I'm treating this as a learning experience. I like the idea of the file_get_contents() as it sounds easier to implement, but, again, I'm using this as a learning experience so maybe I'll try and parse out the log files as you suggest. Again, many thanks! Dave ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters@xxxxxxx> To: Yannick Mortier <mvmortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: JD <danceintherain82@xxxxxxxxxxx>, php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: PHP bandwidth control Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:03:12 -0700 Yannick Mortier wrote: > 2009/4/6 JD <danceintherain82@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Hello, >> >> I am relatively new to PHP and am trying to make a video/image sharing site for my family to upload and share family videos and pictures. My concern is that because I'm hosting this site at my house, I will quickly exceed my bandwidth limitations each month if all the family members I think will use the site do actually end up using it. What I'd like to do is set up each family member with their own login and track how much bandwidth they use and cap it after a certain amount. The login stuff is easy and I have that figured out, but I haven't been able to figure out a good way to track the bandwidth used by each user that logs in. Is there a good way to do this with PHP? >> >> Thanks, >> Dave >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Click here for free information on how to reduce your debt by filing for bankruptcy. >> http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxXKInZ3kl2SDnqN7ifO3PSaE96m9RMpRCn9agvvsomFpM5Y0grTAM/ >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > I guess there are multiple ways to engage this problem. It depends how > "deep" you want to log the traffic. If you just want to count the > traffic of each image, video etc you could just wrap up each image and > video to go through php first with file_get_contents() (look in the > php manual there are some examples how to work with this), count how > many bytes of data will be sent out and log this in a database or > however you want to do this. > If the bandwith limit is exceeded you don't deliver the image anymore > and display an error message instead. > > If you want to catch all traffic you must parse the log files from you > webserver. To do this you could save the IP with which the login of > the user was performed and connect all traffic that was done by that > IP to the User. If the traffic limit is exceeded you display an error > message. > > I guess for some family-internal sharing the first approach should be > good enough. Just make sure you take some bandwith for the html pages > into your calculations. > My suggestion would be to do it on a real server and avoid any and all ISP restrictions, present and future. Don't register your domain with your host though, I found it to be a real PITA to switch hosts when you use them as your registrar, getting them to relinquish control of the domain can be a PITA. Instead register with someone like godaddy that lets you specify the nameservers and host elsewhere. Then if you feel like you need to move it to a different host, your current host can't be jerks about it. ____________________________________________________________ Purify your water with professional water treatment. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxWi0WoglDK0IWRPkII8DwKjpWYPNFWYl5H4goF180aUp9479wxiL2/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
