Uploading and storing large files

Hi. I am currently working on a projekt that will involve uploading files with filesizes up to about 10mb, and all sorts of different filetypes and I havet o Questsions concerning that. 1 ) How should the upload be done? I don't feel all that comfortable posting 10mb-files via a simple html-form, wouldn't that take a while if the connections is slow, and even if it was fast, it would take a minute or two. I was drawing out a upload functions with the built in ftp-functions, but then it occured to me, doesn't a <form> always posts it's content to the server anyway? How do I post large files without worrying about broken uploads, timeouts and all that? 2 ) How should I store the files? I suppose I have to optiones. Database ( I have mySQL installed ) or in folders ( in RedHat8.0 ) Should I build up a folder-structure to hold the files or just put it all in the database? A mySQL table in RedHat can hold 4gb, which is a lot, but my content may exceed that, how coud I check the size of the tables, and dynamically create new databases and when running a member Query, select content from them all? Would a file structure be better, with a folder strucuture for member a-b store in this folder c-d to in this and so on... Would it be stupid to store a 10000 10mb mpegs in one database? Any suggestions? /peter a