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 <mpet...@mac.com> 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.
>

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