Limiting download speed in PHP web frameworks

Question

I'm going to implement a website in PHP using a Web Framework. I never implemented a website in PHP... I don't have problems learning new languages. The problem is that I would like to know if frameworks like Zend, CakePHP can be used to create a page which lets you download files at a given rate (eg 50 KB/s)? Thank you.

Answer 1

Your server should deal with this issue, not PHP.

In case you have Apache see here:

• Apache Module mod_ratelimit
• Webserver Bandwidth Limiting in Apache

For Lighttpd see here:

• http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ssllighttpd.htm
• TrafficShaping