Bandwidth Splitting
Hello,
I have a few large video files that I want to host. I have two web hosts with about 50GB/month of transfer each.
Is there a way I can have a link that switches between which host it grabs the file from? Or a random link to two different pages with different links?
Or some other way to split the bandwidth for these files?
I can't just host one file on one server and the other file on the other server because one file is more popular than the other and it doesn't really split the bandwidth very well. Also I would like some type of automatic system rather than moving around the files or links a few times a month.
Thanks for the suggestions,
Alex
Renegade posted this at 10:02 — 8th October 2003.
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Does your host support PHP? If it does then I'm sure you can make a script which directs to one of the two places randomly.
hostito posted this at 13:55 — 8th October 2003.
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If you are using apahce you could check out .htaccess and the "rewrite" directives. You can psuedo load balance this way
Much like a php scriptie as suggest above...
HTH..
JeevesBond posted this at 09:18 — 9th October 2003.
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Wouldn't it be easier to use Javascript?
I'm sure there's a random function, it would be a bit quick and dirty - but if you haven't got access to the .htaccess or PHP it'll be a lot easier!
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