Karl Bongers wrote: > I like the idea of staggering the downloads somehow. You may be > able to just use built in connection limits, so if more than 50 > clients are downloading, the server will deny a new connection. > The client will just retry next hour. yes, and we can specify a retry interval :) > > So when you say phone home, you really mean phone up the internet > for the connection, right? Your not setting up a bunch of modems? right. no modems here. the content is delivered in a PULL method instead of a PUSH, so the clients call home, or check for status every $phone_home_interval duncan -- Duncan Shannon Non-Profit Web hosting and design http://www.npohost.org _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list