[DECtalk] Bandwidth limiting

[Brent Harding]

The coral thing is something everyone with heavy requirements should use. I 
wonder how well it would work for Podcasts that are like 40-50 megs long or 
more? I don't get how people that get them popular could deal with the hit 
of hundreds of gigs a month.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Bandwidth limiting


> Hi,
>
> What Apache module are you using?  If you install mod_choke, you can
> do this on a directory basis.  Just drop a .htaccess file in the
> directory to block.  I'm not at all surprised at people taking all
> the bandwidth.  I can relate, I've had similar problems.  If you
> install mod_choke and can't figure it out, write and I'll send my
> configuration.  Actually you don't have to use .htaccess, you can
> drop it in httpd.conf or include a separate config file.  That way
> the .htaccess won't be visible to ftp clients and won't get mirrored
> because it won't exist.
>
> Also, there are other mirroring options.  One I've tried and can
> recommend is Coral CDN.  It isn't an actual mirror but a series of
> servers that are designed to help slow sites.  They download a file
> for you and you can get it faster from the server group instead of
> one heavily loaded server.  It's kind of like a proxy but not
> exactly.  You can use it with any site or almost any file as long as
> it's static.  Dynamic content such as php scripts and forms won't
> work.  To use, just append .nyud.net:8080 to the url.  Here is an example:
>
> http://bluegrasspals.com:8080/
>
> This is especially good outside of North America.  There are many
> servers in Asia.  My tests have generally shown a slightly faster
> download speed this way.  Sometimes it might be slower if you get a
> distant server such as in Asia but refreshing or trying the download
> again usually helps.  It is still in testing so it isn't perfect but
> might be a good starting point.  It doesn't do ftp at all.
>
> Also I don't know if mod_choke works with Apache 2 or not.  If not,
> try mod_tsunami.  It looked good last time I checked.  I didn't like
> mod_bandwidth or mod_throttle but those are also options.  One didn't
> support .htaccess, I think mod_bandwidth.  There might be one just
> for Apache 2 also, I'm not sure.  Sorry list for the technical
> discussion, but I've been there before so I can relate to his problem.
>
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