Re: PHP bandwidth control

Excellent, thanks both for the suggestions. I'd like to continue hosting it myself if for no other reason than I want to learn how to manage some of the hardware, software and operating systems that I otherwise don't get much exposure to. I'm treating this as a learning experience. I like the idea of the file_get_contents() as it sounds easier to implement, but, again, I'm using this as a learning experience so maybe I'll try and parse out the log files as you suggest. Again, many thanks! Dave ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters@mac.com> To: Yannick Mortier <mvmortier@googlemail.com> Cc: JD <danceintherain82@netzero.com>, php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP bandwidth control Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:03:12 -0700 Yannick Mortier wrote: > 2009/4/6 JD <danceintherain82@netzero.com>: >> Hello, >> >> I am relatively new to PHP and am trying to make a video/image sharing site for my family >> to upload and share family videos and pictures. My concern is that because I'm hosting this >> site at my house, I will quickly exceed my bandwidth limitations each month if all the family >> members I think will use the site do actually end up using it. What I'd like to do is set up >> each family member with their own login and track how much bandwidth they use and cap it after a >> certain amount. The login stuff is easy and I have that figured out, but I haven't been able to >> figure out a good way to track the bandwidth used by each user that logs in. Is there a good way to >> do this with PHP? >> >> Thanks, >> Dave >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Click here for free information on how to reduce your debt by filing for bankruptcy. >> >> http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxXKInZ3kl2SDnqN7ifO3PSaE96m9RMpRCn9agvvsomFpM5Y0grTAM/ >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > I guess there are multiple ways to engage this problem. It depends how > "deep" you want to log the traffic. If you just want to count the > traffic of each image, video etc you could just wrap up each image and > video to go through php first with file_get_contents() (look in the > php manual there are some examples how to work with this), count how > many bytes of data will be sent out and log this in a database or > however you want to do this. > If the bandwith limit is exceeded you don't deliver the image anymore > and display an error message instead. > > If you want to catch all traffic you must parse the log files from you > webserver. To do this you could save the IP with which the login of > the user was performed and connect all traffic that was done by that > IP to the User. If the traffic limit is exceeded you display an error > message. > > I guess for some family-internal sharing the first approach should be > good enough. Just make sure you take some bandwith for the html pages > into your calculations. > My suggestion would be to do it on a real server and avoid any and all ISP restrictions, present and future. Don't register your domain with your host though, I found it to be a real PITA to switch hosts when you use them as your registrar, getting them to relinquish control of the domain can be a PITA. Instead register with someone like godaddy that lets you specify the nameservers and host elsewhere. Then if you feel like you need to move it to a different host, your current host can't be jerks about it. ____________________________________________________________ Purify your water with professional water treatment. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxWi0WoglDK0IWRPkII8DwKjpWYPNFWYl5H4goF180aUp9479wxiL2/