game_over Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 I need to upload a lot of audio files to the web that can be accessed via http... What is the best solution for this? I need to keep costs down so would love something that scales as it grows.. It doesn't need to be anything fancy, just a simply s/ftp upload or similar and then accessed to the public via http. I don't want to use services like g drive or dropbox, it is not a backup storage service, more of a download service. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted November 11, 2015 MVC Share Posted November 11, 2015 Where does CDN come into play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
game_over Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 (edited) Where does CDN come into play? Sorry CDN was probably not the right term to use... I just need online cloud storage, but if CDN was cheap enough distributing files to servers across the world it would be a bonus, though not required.I could even go with a dirt cheap VPS if it was fast enough, although i don't think most VPS hosts allow this on their services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted November 11, 2015 MVC Share Posted November 11, 2015 Why not? .... They would allow pretty much anything if its not copyrighted, illegal or I am going to use the term Warez, Wow that felt good using that word its been so long. Yeah CDN is not what you want here. Checkout the Hosting threat at the top of the Networks Forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
game_over Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 Why not? .... They would allow pretty much anything if its not copyrighted, illegal or I am going to use the term Warez, Wow that felt good using that word its been so long. Yeah CDN is not what you want here. Checkout the Hosting threat at the top of the Networks Forum. It really depends, some VPS services do not allow to be used specifically for file sharing.. constant bandwidth hammering can impact the node. I have found a host that allows VPS to be used for files, 250gb storage, 1tb bandwidth for £6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted November 12, 2015 MVC Share Posted November 12, 2015 (edited) That's a fair point, Where was that? £6 a month? Depends where you need it to be located? I am guessing UK based? The low end boxes will tend to be Linux, Is that OK? I mean it would be VERY simple to do this. One line command....... You could look into a seedbox. Feral Hosting were great when I used them. Cheap(ish) too. I am sure you could do that with there hosting package. http://www.tecmint.com/python-simplehttpserver-to-create-webserver-or-serve-files-instantly/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted November 12, 2015 Veteran Share Posted November 12, 2015 (edited) Don't use Python's inbuilt HTTP Server. Don't get me wrong, it'll work, but it's not meant to be a proper web server, it's more of just the default behavior behind the HTTP server class. A proper server like nginx or h2o (My new favorite) would be faster and more secure. Edit: Just checked, it doesn't implement any form of conditional GETs, so every single resource load will download the entire resource over again, that'll blow out your bandwidth usage by a huge amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Cloudflare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
game_over Posted November 12, 2015 Author Share Posted November 12, 2015 That's a fair point, Where was that? £6 a month? Depends where you need it to be located? I am guessing UK based? The low end boxes will tend to be Linux, Is that OK? I mean it would be VERY simple to do this. One line command....... You could look into a seedbox. Feral Hosting were great when I used them. Cheap(ish) too. I am sure you could do that with there hosting package. http://www.tecmint.com/python-simplehttpserver-to-create-webserver-or-serve-files-instantly/ Linux is fine I can install apache. Cloudflare? Idont think Cloudflare offer file storage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 it does file caching and you can define the depth and TTL on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 https://www.inmotionhosting.com/ This isn't rocket science... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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