I've recently joined a group of people who are determined to donate some or all of their bandwidth for the hosting of Halo movies for halo.bungie.org. I've been a long time member, it's a great community, and I'm certain it's a good cause.
They used to serve 3-5gb daily- so far we've amassed enough hosts to total 145gb/month but the trick is to distribute it.
From what I can tell, they've worked out a system to incrementally serve out a new download link for each visitor to the page, theoretically sharing the downloads equally.
The problem I see is that some hosts have 5gb/month limits while others have 30gb/month limits. I've installed some basic bandwidth monitoring scripts on my 3 servers, but can ANYONE suggest how to monitor bandwidth of multiple files on multiple servers from one location? COTS software or complicated installs aren't an option- I'm working with a bunch of random peeps and a quick setup would be best.
I'm thinking either a) a database (standard flatfile, mysql, etc ??)containing the URL's to all the videos and someway to monitor them from one site or b) some type of script on each server that will gather it's bandwidth info in a log file while a script on another server culls all the info and displays it in one spot...
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can monitor bandwidth across multiple domains from one location?
Thanks
