Question

i need to serve large video files over the web and i set up a webserver handling upload and other stuff with tornado behind nginx.

what is the best way to serve those files?
should i use tornado asynch to do this or is there a nginx module to do that?

i would also need offsets on those videos.

thx

Answer 1

In production, you probably want to serve static files from a more optimized static file server like nginx. You can configure most any web server to support these caching semantics.
The nginx configuration FriendFeed use/used:

location /static/ {
    root /var/friendfeed/static;
    if ($query_string) {
        expires max;
    }
 }