Hi !
I'm starting a course with Moodle 2.x.x, and I'd like to implement an organization who keep good response time. Course would be like this :
_ now 30 users, later : 1000 users
_ 20 topics in the course
_ Each course would have around 150Mb of files
* text (4 pages)
* pdf, .... 4x50mb
* Pictures : 20x50kb , 10x150kb, 5x300kb
* Videos : 3x50Mb (flv)
I have 3 questions
First question is about response time : Is it better to keep the files in the database or outside with links ? where to put them and to keep them private ?
Second question : if I put files outside the website (links), is it possible to indicate to Moodle a change of the address ? (e.g. "files_location" would be with an other value in this example : 5 folders (images, videos, documents ...) and the address would be for a video : "files_location"/videos/video1.flv). I mean : is it possible to define different parameters that you can change later (e.g. : changing the host for files) . How to implement in Moodle when starting the beginning of development ?
Third question : For a beginner like me , is it possible to have a development with files in the database and to have already this alias "files_location" . I mean , in case of overload, I can put a copy of files at an other place outside of the database, on a server and simply change the value of "files_location". Does it any any common sense for response time optimization ?
I hope that my questions aren't too weird
Thank you very much