[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by JtChurch925

If I am hosting the actual files to be downloaded on another server can I still use this by linking to those files as though they were hosted locally?

Yes, although (depending on exectly how you set things up), this will be more expensive, both in terms of cpu (file reads over an http channel are more expensive than from the local server) and bandwidth (everything goes through your server twice, in then out). It's not a good idea to do this with (e.g.) video files, although it's quite ok with typical pdfs.

Originally Posted by JtChurch925

Will this plugin automatically update the files listed for the users if more files are dumped onto the remote site? i.e. a remote directory is set for the 'e-book' downloads, and more e-books are added, will I have to go and add each new link individually any time there is an update to the remote site?

No, LDM will not autosync with a second server, although it will sync with the local file system. I didn't add this for a couple of reasons - security and processing cost. (If you look back a few posts, you'll see that someone is having problems syncing a directory structure containing tens of thousands of files.)

Originally Posted by JtChurch925

Is it relatively simple to add adsense code to the basic template of the downloads pages?

I have not done this myself, but I think this is quite a common mod to the mod.