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Keep you options open with FTP file uploads using PHP

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How important is FTP to your organization? How important is FTP to your clients? With the current increase in the use of video and audio files in corporate environments are you finding requests for FTP servers are on the rise?

is this from explicit users or is it anyone on the company site?

I know of several community sites that allow uploading through their scripts, most have a file size restriction on top of the file type restriction. They test for these before any upload is processed to the point of transferring the file, even through http upload.

What may be of more use for corporate servers would be to add bitorrent support to those files they are offering for download, specially software companies that can have large files for download.
A good example of this, go download fedora core 4 or 5 from Red Hat, they have it available as a torrent prominently placed to promote the usage of the torrent. This actually reduces the company's data transfer usage, since everyone that uses a torrent has to alter settings or shut it down to kill the upload before 120% of the file is uploaded. I downloaded the 5 iso images in one torrent of 2+ GB, it took under an hour, with http or ftp for the transfer you are talking about an hour per iso.

Sir i tried this but there's a error, Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phppeLH3W' to '/images/phppeLH3W' in /home/aqua/public_html/smith/upload4.php on line 17
Cannot move uploaded file to working directory
Please give information why i have this error.
thx
albert