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This is a drupal question asked by mixersoft on 04 May 2007

I’m building a site that can handle up/download of LARGE zip files (JPG photos) and generate preview and thumbnail renderings — which are most efficiently done in the background. After much effort, I finally got my drupal 5.1 configured properly on site5 (their error, not mine) only to be told that my application is “not appropriate” for their shared hosting service.

When I said that I wanted to process 1000 photos, they said “no persistent connections or background processes”, without elaborating on when a connection is “persistent”. (How can anyone use 5TB of bandwidth a month without generating any load on the cpus?) They seemed to suggest that a long download or upload could be called persistent process and terminated. In fact, they terminated my initial project checkout in of the drupal directory in subversion because the process took too long!

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