Am I sending large amounts of data sensibly?
- by Sofus Albertsen
I am about to design a video conversion service, that is scalable on the conversion side.
The architecture is as follows:
Webpage for video upload
When done, a message gets sent out to one of several resizing servers
The server locates the video, saves it on disk, and converts it to several formats and resolutions
The resizing server uploads the output to a content server, and messages back that the conversion is done.
Messaging is something I have covered, but right now I am transferring via FTP, and wonder if there is a better way? is there something faster, or more reliable? All the servers will be sitting in the same gigabit switch or neighboring switch, so fast transfer is expected.