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

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.

.

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