Hi guys!

My website keeps crashing because people keep streaming the videos. In under 3 weeks, we have had over 400GB of bandwidth! However Im told the problem is users streaming the video, instead of saving it on their computers. I need some help as to what to do. Im using Cpanel, on an apache server if that helps

thanks!:D

Just zip your movie files :)
You can do it over SSH by navigating to the directory then doing zip moviename.zip moviename.avi or wut ever the extension is.

No, I dont want to hassle my viewers with that. There has to be a script or sumthing to disable streaming video. Someone has to be able to help me!!!

thanx!

well the only other way i can think of is MIME which defiens what kind of file it is. The problem is that which program comes up when you click on the movie is defined on the client side and not the server side. so basically its impossible to control it as far as i know.

heh, damn-I guess Im just going to get a dedicated server to handle the streaming content then. Wow, our site blew up soo fast-we couldnt handle it! It was up 2 weeks in december, then we got booted since we had a 8GB/month bandwidth, but ended up using 490++GB in 2 weeks!

Then same story, only now bandwidth wasnt the problem, we crashed the server (200 other sites on it) due to streaming video eating the servers resources!!!

attempt to alter MIME type and force the browser to download the file. this can be done in PHP.

Can you explain this better? This running a sever thing is new to me. So any help would be greatly appreciated!