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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So how will you handle 100 people auto downloading the whole site of 2GB scenes, without spending a fortune on servers or slowing the site down?
You can always set the limit to 10GB a day. That's 5 scenes.
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If you joined a site and were only allowed to download 5 scenes would you be satisfied? Especially if the 5 didn't quite float your boat.
I don't think internet connection speeds are going to get slower. Which means the number of people that can download that amount of content is increasing daily.
My programmer worked closely with Ray from day 1. We used to have a download limit. We'd get a lot of flack. Both from guys trying to download the entire site and guys just wanting to watch a significant amount of content. I'm a firm believer in giving the members what they want. So we removed the download limit and decided to find ways to run the site without any limits. It's been a few years now and (knock on wood) we've had no problems. The site's speed has been fast and reliable the entire time. I believe it has a lot to do with the infrastructure we put in place as well as little tricks my programmer implemented to keep me happy and him sane. If you want to limit the guys using download managers you just have to think about the process they go thru vs the process a regular live surfer goes thru. The answer and solutions are there. You just have to think about it
