I'd probably say that it sounds like a good idea for a cdn. Amazon provides a good service like that.
If you have to serve them through your severs, for that large a file I would avoid doing it through cfcontent (if you need security). Mark Sent from my mobile device On 28 Oct 2010 14:48, "BarryC" <barrychester...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > This isn't really a coldfusion specific question, but I thought some > people here might have dealt with this sort of thing. > > We are looking at serving of large files (e.g. 4GB) from our web > servers. We run Apache web servers, but I haven't been able to find > any useful general information about the impact of serving out large > files and what performance problems there might be when serving out > large files in terms of server performance, does one need to be > running a separate service all together to be dishing out large files > from a web server? I know there are a limited number of http > connections that can be made to a server, and these can be tied up if > someone is spending several hours downloading one file. Obviously > bandwidth of the server and client is a factor, but I'm not so worried > about that at the moment. > > If anyone has experience serving large files any info would be very > handy :) > > Thanks > Barry Chesterman. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. > To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<cfaussie%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
