Dave- Someone with access to the server commands could put the whole "Ask the boss" file into a folder with special access. With a password we could retrieve the entire file. I doubt the file is any larger than 5GB, probably a lot less.
You know Dave, some of the programing we see today is stuck in the time that data storage was expensive and must be conserved at all cost. I see in your bio that you are a computer programmer. Now we have huge, super cheap hard drives that can store unbelievable amounts of data. My computer, which I built myself, has 100 GB of unused storage. I come to this web site several times a day for a update of new posts. The software downloads the same posts every visit to the thread. This uses bandwidth that could be saved if the thread was saved in a cache and only the new data was downloaded to your computer. I started programing in 1973 on a IBM system 3. The trend of data storage piety has been in the forefront of programming for so long that it is inherent in all software paradigms. Do you think that user disk caches could save gigabytes of bandwidth from a server for a forum such as this? I sometimes receive the same thread page 5 times in a day. I have fallen a little behind the times in programming and would like the opinion of someone with more recent involvement. Is there a good reason for the way internet servers send out the same information over and over? Maybe it is because they get paid by the bandwidth usage.
