Greetings, I am hoping to pick some of your brains. I find myself in a quandary. If you will indulge me I will explain the situation as briefly as I can.
We current have a website, several really, that are fairly heavily trafficked about 12 - 18 million pages per month primarily used to obtain video game maps and assets for the games. The website is not the issue since we store the actual files for download on remote servers and link people to them for download via FTP. For the past 3 years this has been working fairly well. We average over 15,000GB / Month in file traffic and serve an average of 350,000 Files /month using this method. We have recently upgraded our remote servers to Athlon 64 X2 3400+, DualCore 64 Bit, 2x 1.8 GHz, 4 GB DDR2-RAM Win2008 X64 Web IIS7 with substantially more bandwidth availability. Since it is a newer OS I was unable to use the old CF5 installation on the remote server and since only needing minimal functionality installed Tomcat and Open BlueDragon for the CFML engine. This seems to work as before since we only use cf on the remote servers to check if the file exists before sending them to the ftp. In other applications I routinely use cfcontent to serve protected files on extranet applications however the traffic ( 10-20 files/day) is nowhere near as rigorous as will be required here with 12,000 per day of 40Meg average per file. I am considering serving the files now through cfcontent via HTTP instead of FTP for a couple of reasons. 1) because most Internet Security programs block FTP and we have to help people (mostly kids) open the port and 2) to prevent direct linking to the files because this endeavor is funded by ads on the website (and my wallet). I know the most efficient way to serve this quantity and size of files is via ftp but what I don't know is what is required by the various CF engines AdobeCF, OpenBD, Bluedragon, Ralio to serve up the same via HTTP. Will our new server hardware handle that kind of HTTP file traffic (I suspect so), will OpenBD/Tomcat be up to the task or will I need a different CFML engine? Essentially what I need to know is what it would take to routinely serve that many/size files through the CF engine. I don't want to go down this road and find that people are having problems downloading because the CF engine / Web server can't keep up. Has anyone had experience with this and can you offer some advice? Dennis Powers UXB Internet - A Website Design & Hosting Company P.O. Box 6028 Wolcott, CT 06716 203-879-2844 http://www.uxbinternet.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334625 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
