It's going to be tough to locate me in 2108 when their directory fills up but they can try me at the retirement village on Alpha Centauri :)
--Kristina > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Ajai Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 28 May 2008, Kristina Anderson wrote: > > > >> In the case of this project, there will potentially be several hundred > >> PDFs but no more than that, at least for the foreseeable future...there > >> are about 30 articles or less published per year by this magazine. > >> > >> So I think one static directory can work for us. > > > > Always plan to make it future-proof as much as you can. If that becomes > > 100 per year, then what? > > > Then in the year 2108, she will have to make changes to the code. > > In my experience, this type of future proofing buys you nothing. I > have found that tons of other problems arise before overflow issues > start to be a problem. I did a similar thing and I just put the files > in a folder with the id. Bandwidth and diskspace became a problem > long before a too many folder problem. The solution was to move > everything to Amazon S3. S3 doesn't have folders and supports and > unlimited number of objects. It turned out to be a blessing that I > didn't do something fancy with the folder naming. > > Regards, > John Campbell > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > ------------------- Kristina D. H. Anderson Senior Application Developer/Consultant "Building a Better Tomorrow, One Line of Code at a Time" 646-247-4987 _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
