Another possibility, inspired by
Corion ++ 's excellent suggestions is based on my interpration of your statements::
- HTML content can be served by the main server.
- It is the file download to new clients that needs to be distributed.
- Registered Volunteer computers will provide appropriate, secure mechanisms for the new clients to download.
Under these conditions, the server should periodically verify the availability and load on each volunteer computer, then modify the served download page(s) for each request such that the download request points to the next available volunteer computer (Round Robin). If all are busy, advise and place the clients in a queue, with a page that refreshes periodically with new status.
With the power of perl, this should not be too difficult to implement.
Cheers!
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