Howto: Download Web Content At Really High Speed Onto Your Web Server, So You Can Download It Later At Crummy Slow Speed, With Download Resume

[Saturn]

The problem:

- You find a really nice download: e.g. a youtube video, or a magazine, which probably won't stay for long.

Alternatively, you find a google/youtube video which is nice but choppy as hell and you don't want to watch 50% and get stuck

- You are stuck with a crummy ADSL connection with no speed. Worse yet the server doesnt support resume, so you can't auto resume what you are downloading.

What you need:

any web hosting account which supports ssh

if it's a video, use keepvid to find the flv/video file link

Howto:

log in to your hosting account

(in linux, something like the following)

sudo ssh site.com -l username

(enter password)

(windows users can download a client like putty - google for putty, download and install and follow instructions)

chdir to your public web directory

cd /users/cheaphosted/crummyactthatsupportsssl/myname

make a folder for your downloads

mkdir filevault

open folder

cd filevault

(if directories are not enabled, make an htaccess with nano .htaccess, then add "Options +Indexes")

Next, just wget your file:

wget www.server.com/filename.ext

if you are lucky your hosting server can download at mb's or gb's per second

you will see a lovely progress bar like this:

100%[====================================>] 21,435,065 41.23M/s

yum, 40mb's!

and you can download it later on to your PC, using a file resumer like getright or something

just go to the folder you made (probably yourdomain.com/filevault

(if you want to be safe you can password protect it with htaccess

FYI you can flv format files with vlc player or flv player

That ends my unsolicited longwinded tip of the day

Edited January 3, 2009 by Saturn

[Devinda_Z]

i'm going with "thanks" ....but its safe to say that i didn't get much of that and am quite confused!

[shanX]

Well, the prob is you should find direct links for that. And your hosting provider should not feel bad about this. So maybe torrents would be better

[Devinda_Z]

  shanX said:

So maybe torrents would be better

now you're speaking my langauge