Re: Random mirrors and download quota

how about using the counter to store an id of the mirrors instead of randomly picking one? this will provide you a sequential traverse through all mirror sites. if there are 10 sites, the counter will always be from 0 -> 9. this way each mirror site will have equal share on hits. so if the counter == 2, your script will know that the next hit will be to mirror site 2. $_nextSite = (isset($_nextSite))?++$_nextSite % 10:0; the above code will always ensure the counter counts from: 0 -> 9 -> 0 -> ... this way, you can store all counters (into database?) on the main site for all mirrors.

"Andrew Conner" <spam@microwinder.com> escreveu na mensagem news:20020810193011.9435.qmail@pb1.pair.com...

Hello, I have a script (at bottom) that, upon loading, will randomly select a mirror or primary server (on average, the primary servers will be selected twice as much). It all works good, but now, I have to add a "quota

manager"

that will, for both mirrors, limit the times the file can be downloaded to 1200 times (there is only one file being downloaded). I have thought about storing a text file for each of the two mirrors that shows the current

count

of downloads, and it will be checked if the mirror is randomly selected

and

if it is above 1200, will randomly select another server, and if it isn't, will just add one to it and update the file. How would I go about this, or is there a better way to do this? Thanks in advance. Andrew Conner The script (I know it doesn't use the best design, but it works, any

better

ways of doing this?): ---------------- <? // This array holds the servers, and has a double entry for the primary servers $adArr = array("http://www.someprimaryserver.com/file.exe", "http://www.someprimaryserver.com/file.exe", "http://www.someprimaryserver2.com/file.exe", "http://www.someprimaryserver2.com/file.exe", "http://www.someprimaryserver3.com/file.exe", "http://www.someprimaryserver3.com/file.exe", "http://www.someprimaryserver4.com/file.exe", "http://www.someprimaryserver4.com/file.exe", "http://www.somemirror.com/file.exe", "http://www.somemirror2.com/file.exe"); // This randomly gets a server... srand((double)microtime()*1000000); $wOne = rand(0, 9); $choice = $adArr[$wOne]; // This fwds the user to the server picked. // Somewhere in here needs to be the mirror stuff... header("Location: $choice"); ?>