OT: How to serve a 8GB download?

[Bob Sneidar]

Probably too late to talk about how to package your data, which is likely the reason it is so big. I suspect it contains a lot of images or other kinds of media. 

You might consider however, packaging your media separately from the application itself, then have the app on launch begin to sync the media from a web server. If that is impractical, then I would say a password protected zip file, where the password is the license key (if you have implemented one). 

It used to be in ages gone by that zip files were broken up into smaller pieces because modem transport of large files was inherently unreliable. These days it’s rare that a download will fail due to the transport. I wouldn’t do multipart zips if you can help it, unless your target market is Botswana where they are still using 14.4 modems. ;-)

Bob S


> On Oct 31, 2014, at 08:39 , Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolbook at kestner.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a LC application, which has a total size of about 8GB (including a
> bunch of videos). Usually it is distributed via DVD-DL.
> 
> If I would like to serve it as a download on my webserver, how should I
> package it? Should I just create a single 8GB zip file, or should I split it
> in several zip files - is there a tool, which would automate it that all
> related zip files are download one after the other and combined after
> download? Or what would  be an appropriate approach for such a big file? No
> user credentials, no payment is necessary, just a link to the download.
> 
> Has anybody experiences with this matter?
> 
> Tiemo
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