[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by zooki

Hi there Andrew, What do you say about someone who wants to let people download 600mb files? Does this differ from say a 5mb or 70mb file with regards to stress on server????

I have had many 70mb movie files for download. Now i need to share larger ones. Just worried it might have some ill effect. (apart from bandwidth, which is not problem)

The file will be on the server.. a local file.

thank you.

There seem to me to be two things you should look out for, cpu usage on your server and the possibility of disconnections during transfers.

I just tried an experiment with a 700mb file, held on my PC and 'downloaded' via LDM back onto this PC. It used about 6 seconds cpu time. So you should be ok from that angle.

Concerning dropped connections, the problem is that someone who uses a regular browser interface may get only part of the file. If they are using a download manager, then that should recover. LDM works with download managers, and is able to deliver parts of the download on request (to be technical, it can cope with single range HTTP 206 partial transfer requests).