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7:13 AM
Dec 8, 2009


Jan

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I have a friend who's trying to set up a database of audio and video files, and he needs to be able to access them remotely, possibly also require multi-user access to upload or download files. I was wondering how this can be achieved relatively easily. Any ideas?

I thought of going with a CMS, like PHPmotion or Vidscript, that supports multimedia to power a website with its content only accessible to registered users. Would that work?

12:19 PM
Dec 8, 2009


Aaron

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You're going to run into problems with file size for videos.  Unless you have a lot of control over your server, you'll probably only be able to upload videos via FTP

12:28 PM
Dec 9, 2009


Jan

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But say they have enough server space and bandwidth allocation, would it still be a viable option if they were okay doing it with FTP?

7:09 AM
Dec 14, 2009


bakercad

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If they are uploading via FTP, with an FTP client, there shouldn't be a problem with up/down loading files.  However, using a CMS, means that they are liking not going to be using an FTP client.  Servers are usually configured with a max upload file size, also PHP's configuration file has a max file size setting as well.  Like Aaron was saying, unless you have control over your server & can change these values, this might be an issue .

1:02 PM
Dec 14, 2009


Jan

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Hmm, I see. Any other ideas?

1:31 PM
Dec 14, 2009


virtual

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Have you thought of http://aws.amazon.com/s3/

It is used to store large bandwith usage files such as videos such I as use in virtual tours. Once your web server is overloaded this is a great solution.

9:42 PM
Dec 14, 2009


alecgorge

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Dealing with anything above medium sized pictures on any shared hosting is near impossible. You really need a VPS ( http://fsckvps.com is good ) to be able to handle the large PHP uploads.

But S3 is good, fast and cheap–for static things. Things you plan on changing more than twice will start to cost you. For example, hosting a welcome video that won't change often is a good use of S3.

7:19 AM
Dec 15, 2009


Jan

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Also, isn't S3 restricted to some regions?

8:44 AM
Dec 15, 2009


virtual

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You can choose your region to minimize costs, it depends where your target market is.
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