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[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 07:32 6/18/2004, Ed K. wrote:
>when transferring many small files, http with persistent connections will
>blow away an ftp mirror, any day any night.
>
>What is why the days are numbered. for small files, use http. for large 
>files (iso), use bittorrent. Plus the bonus of http headers are very
>important for caching hierarchies.
>
>{corrections from anyone......?}

Just the comment that you seem to be focusing strongly on the typical use 
of a single user downloading something large and of high demand, like an 
iso. As an example, I have a small company which receives a single upload 
from each one of 40 customers every month, since they are sending us 
graphics to be published in a magazine. The uploads are usually 3 to 10 
files, each ranging from 20 to 100MB, so on average we get 600MB from each 
customer.

Today we use FTP based on the perception I had that FTP is significantly 
better at transferring large files and maximizing bandwidth. Using max b/w 
is also important since most of the customers (by virtue of Murphy's law) 
wait until the very last minute before sending. :-) So HTTP is less 
efficient you say, and BitTorrent is not applicable.

I'm left again with FTP, aren't I? Or scp, but honestly I don't even know 
which mechanism scp uses.

Cheers,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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