Any ideas on handling large file uploads using PHP efficiently?

S3 has a great feature where you can allow users to upload files directly so your server doesn't have to handle the actual uploading.

But how large do you mean? If reasonable PHP usually handles fine, but S3 direct upload is great for apps that have really big file uploads or depend a lot on file uploading.

@dfox It's mostly video files which can go upto 1gb per file. I need to play it back in custom Android based devices later which will first download the files into the device for repeated playing in offline mode. Trying to a think of a cost effective way to serve files. Storing in S3 or EC2 instance?

Legal files? I have suggestions for yes or no to this the aforementioned question

@ScribeOfGoD Yes legal content

video transcoding

https://aws.amazon.com/elastictrans...

Google cloud
http://www.anvato.com/

Switch to node and formidable will touch your soul like noone ever have before

@code-god What is the most expensive portion of serving the files?