Hi Alex Thanks for your answer
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 03:34, Alexander Solla wrote: > On Sunday 08 August 2004 04:01 pm, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > <snip> > > > NOTE: > > I have only a limited free transfer rate of 1 GB for each consecutive ~4 > > weeks for these packages ... I'll have to remove them for each single > > transfer period as soon as the download rate is coming close to 1 GB in > > that resp. period. > > > > If someone out there knows a better free (free as in "free beer") place > > with higher transfer rates to store the packages please let me know ... > > > > Do you mean that you're only allowed 1 GB of traffic on your website? Yes. > If so, > you may want to consider distribution via BitTorrent. You would only be > putting small files on the web server which "point" to the actual file's > location. That would reduce the strain on the webserver (at the expense of > straining your connection, not as much as one might think) > > http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ [ ... ] Provided I understood the BitTorrent rules correctly: Definitely too complicated to set up for my purposes: Anyone simply wishing to get some binaries would have to spent hours learning and setting up BitTorrent. Which is not what I want. Not to mention the security aspects being involved when folks would have to make a directory on their machine world readable ... With this scenario it probably would be much easier to simply set up a local apache here and the offer the packages (But 24 hrs / 7 days: No way ... :) What I'm looking for is simply a small password protected public http place (public as contrary to a local apache running 24 hrs / 7 days). Again: Thanks. I think I'll find something ... :) Best Regards Wolfgang -- Profile, links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer
