Marcus,
Thank you for you advice but I think this solution will not work for
me. As I wrote on my previous email, I'm going to serve HD video content
which is going to be more than 1GB.

All the best,

- Brice

On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Marcus Clyne wrote:

> Brice,
>
> If you haven't done so already, have a look at Primebase Media
> Streaming (www.blobstreaming.org).
>
> It's a MySQL plugin that has a lightweight HTTP server on the front of
> it to serve blobs out of a database.
>
> I've done some tests on it (up to 2M objects), and the speed was
> comparable in many cases to serving content statically.
>
> As part of the system, it allows you to provide an alias for your
> blobs, so as to hide any database information.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcus.
>
>
> Jean-Philippe Moal wrote:
>> Brice Leroy a écrit :
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm interrested in NGINX to serve static files according to his
>>> performance :p. But I will have to serve big static file (video content
>>> in hd) and to protect the access I would like to use a dynamic url with
>>> a key inside like:
>>>
>>> - http://static/qwertyuiopasdfghjkl which will return the content of
>>> file.mov where the key(qwertyuiopasdfghjkl) is associated with the file
>>> in the DB. The user received the content not the file.
>>>
>>> So a user can share an URL with his contact and stop sharing it when he
>>> want (by removing the record in the DB). I will have to serve thousand
>>> of files at the same time and I want to minimize my server farm. Do you
>>> have any idea ?
>>>
>>> Thank you :)
>>>
>>>
>> You can use X-Accel-Redirect: http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxXSendfile
>>
>>
>>
>