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, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 able to continue an interrupted download that is an issue. >> > > Resuming interrupted downloads when you are using php to serve a file not > in the document root is probably even trickier. > > If you don't mind your server doing that, then go ahead and use http - but > it will result in increased bandwidth from browsers that crashed, network > hickups, etc. >
