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
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