In a situation where several dozen clients are making requests from a server at the same time (a web-casting event), which is most efficient: a single large file or many smaller files? Thanks!
Well think of it this way... If you are in college and you have a test for the year coming up... would you rather sit through a bunch of smaller classes and be able to take in the information easier and with LESS STRESS (i.e. less stress of the server) or would you rather have one long class that covered everything for the entire year? (which will put a lot of stress on the server) Personally, I would rather have them serve up a couple small files at a time because they would be off of your server quicker. However, If there are a ton of small files, you'd be better off catering to them and giving them the files zipped up.