Fast private file transfers for Drupal
Posted by Arto on July 20, 2006 at 8:41am
For those looking to have Drupal serve private files efficiently, I've posted a simple core patch that adds X-Sendfile support:
http://drupal.org/node/74472
Scalable static file hosting and some thoughts on Amazon S3
Posted by boris mann on April 27, 2006 at 11:49pm
So, one of the big things with static file serving is that it requires an entire Drupal bootstrap, which sucks up a lot of system resources. We have work to do in Drupal/the File API to support some interesting scalability options, remote files, etc. etc.
But, I think there are some interesting models for doing highly scalable static file serving outside of Drupal (and Amazon's S3 is cool).
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