Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:27:32 -0600 (CST) From: Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> Cc: Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de>, "Paul M . Lambert" <plambert@plambert.net>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Limiting number of downloads per user in Apache?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101112024530.67383-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101112035000.51405-100000@www.bellnetworks.net>
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Another idea would be to mirror the files on different servers at different locations if you can do that. You could put them at... downloads.yoursite.com/files Then you do round-robin dns and have 5 different IPs behind that domain. That will nicely spread your bandwidth around. But I will guess this is not an option for you. Not many people have access to servers around the net to mirror 2GB of data. What content is it? Perhaps you will find willing people to mirror for you. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com The smell draws you in... snap! There goes your nose. Land Shark! On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jim Freeze wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Christoph Sold wrote: > > Jim Freeze schrieb: > > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Paul M . Lambert wrote: > > > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jim Freeze wrote: > > > Visitors can always be tracked with an id and password if bandwidth is > > > that important. > > > > And it's easy to get just another five-minute-password, if you're really > > tempted to do so. > > > Yes. I think most good user/passwords today use email with email > authentication. So, one would have to have multiple email addresses and be > willing to go through the email authentication negotiation. > > I have done this to get around 'online coupons', but doubt it would be > worth it for a download. By the time I get another account setup, I would > have already made all my desired downloads. > > But, not to lose site of the big picture. If there are 10 files that a > users wants from your site, let them have those ten files as fast as they > can and then they leave and free up the resources for someone else. Plus, > they are happy (one they get in.). > > With this method, you would only throttle the number of downloads, not > caring about who is doing the download. > > Best Regards > > ==================================================== > Jim Freeze > jim@freeze.org > --------------------------------------------------- > ** http://www.freeze.org ** > ==================================================== > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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