On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 21:26, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > 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.
No: I have 1 GB of *free* transfers: I can have more than that, but I'd have to pay that. Which simply exceeds my current financial means. Regards Wolfgang > > > 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 -- Profile: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer 3 more reasons for Linux: <http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2F> <http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fbi.gov%2F> <http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defenselink.mil>
