Hello,
Many hosting companies have decent constraints for number of users and number of courses, but total download volumes can be quite limited (200 students downloading two 10MB videos wipe out most monthly DL volumes). My primary needs for Moodle are quizzing, assignment specification, and resource organization.
Basically, for resource organization I would like to create links to pages on external servers. The high MB files reside on servers with virtually unlimited downloads, and the files are spread over many servers so that no single system gets abused.
Before I get too crazy about designing or organizing such a framework, I just want to confirm my fuzzy understanding of all this. When I create a link in Moodle to an external page or file (and for the sake of argument display in a frame under my Moodle site), is it true that the Moodle server will just perform activity and frame management, while the client and file server interact directly without going through the Moodle server? (which is to say that the file does NOT FIRST get uploaded to the Moodle server, THEN downloaded to client)
I hope that I am stating an obvious characteristic, but if not, someone please put me in the right direction.
Cheers,
Eric Carlson
Resources that actually go through the moodle server
Number of replies: 3Re: Resources that actually go through the moodle server
That's how the hyperlink should work: If a webpage on server A has a link to a ressource on server B, the browser sends a direct request to server B to fetch that ressource.
But I'm talking about _browser_, ie. HTTP. Since you say something about a file server, I'm not sure wheter my statement is valid for your setup.
But I'm talking about _browser_, ie. HTTP. Since you say something about a file server, I'm not sure wheter my statement is valid for your setup.
Re: Resources that actually go through the moodle server
Yes Eric - that sounds spot-on, mate.
Linking to any external resource via its URL is just a link...
(and it sounds like your "file server" is indeed just a web server providing static content).
Sounds like a common sense approach. Keep in mind however that when you backup your courses you'll only back up a link to the external resource (not the resource itself), meaning that you'll need to be performing some other process to backup the resources on your external servers (sounds obvious, but I know that teachers in my institution wouldn't assume the distinction).
Good luck!
MC
Linking to any external resource via its URL is just a link...
(and it sounds like your "file server" is indeed just a web server providing static content).
Sounds like a common sense approach. Keep in mind however that when you backup your courses you'll only back up a link to the external resource (not the resource itself), meaning that you'll need to be performing some other process to backup the resources on your external servers (sounds obvious, but I know that teachers in my institution wouldn't assume the distinction).
Good luck!
MC
Re: Resources that actually go through the moodle server
I second Myles...