Re: your opinion on this: large file upload to isp instead of web host

On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:22:49 -0800, Captain Paralytic wrote:

On 6 Feb, 11:18, henribaeyens <cont...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:50:38 -0800, Captain Paralytic wrote:
On 6 Feb, 10:47, henribaeyens <cont...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

I'd like some input on this idea.
I'm working on a site that'll serve streaming video (kinda like
youtube but WAY more confidential, if you know what I mean). The
problem though is that the web host isn't very flexible: the upload
file size limit is 2 megs and we'll be using 10 to 20 megs files.
They can be ftp'd, but that's not a practical solution: see, videos
(FLVs) are meant to be uploaded thru an admin interface along with
some other data such as title, subject, keywords, date of recording,
and all that is fed to a database (the process has to be fluid: the
admin shan't have to enter the video's data, update the database,
and then open an ftp client to upload the actual file). So I was
thinking about using the isp. In a nutshell, the video file would be
uploaded not to the web hosts disk but to the isp's. The database
will store a link to the remote file. Of course, I'll have to make
sure that the streaming would still be fast enough. But many pages
and blogs feature youtube media, and I don't really see any
difference.
Practically, how do I tell php not to upload to the web host but to
the isp?

Does this seem like a viable alternative? or what?

Henri

The isp provides the connection to the internet. the do not
automatically supply any data storage areas.

well, not so sure about that. A lot ISP's, in fact all of them, at
least in France, but most probably else where as well, provide web
space for "personal web sites", and the space is usually a 100 to 200
megs.
It depends on what sort of connection you buy.

As far as I know and with every isp I checked, the default package
includes at least 100 megs disk space, php and perl support
.

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