Re: Ftp upload

On 14 June 2011 22:27, Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 14, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Andre Polykanine wrote: >> >> So,  say,  they  make  audiobooks  or  movies and they want them to be >> available   as   (paid)  download.  How  should they upload it so they >> would be in the catalog? > > If it's really large data like that, and they have a lot of it, maybe upload > through the network isn't the best way to go. As Andy Tanenbaum put it > "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes speeding > across town" -- maybe there are better, faster, and more reliable ways of > getting the data to the server? Overnight courier of a huge harddrive maybe > faster if there's a lot to get to the server. Just a thought. A USB drive or DVD or DAT or whatever they have and can/will support. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea