Handling large file uploads in a clustered server environment?

[lddd]

Hello there,

i would like to know if anybody can tell me what are best practices on building a file sharing script where files should be stored on a clustered environment with multiple servers.

How this is normally be done on large sites like dropbox for e.g or rapidshare?

Files getting uploaded should be available from every node in the cluster at every time for later downloads.

Are there any kind of tutorials, design patterns, documentation covering a scenario like this?

thanks in advanced!

[Topcoder]

There are a few file sharing PHP scripts…

http://www.osfilemanager.com/
http://www.letodms.com/

I used Leto before in the past.

Search Google for “Document sharing Open Source PHP”

Just changing you search terms from “File” to “Documents” will yield different results.