Over at TLA's board Justin asked me to compare
that script to StrongBox, currently the leading
security solution.
Here's a copy of that comparison:
> and is the one below a viable alternative
That one is a viable way to protect just your movies,
provided that the rest of your members area is secured in
some other way.
It is NOT a security solution for the site itself,
but rather an add-on to make referer based protection
(such as Mike's Blackbox) or basic user/pass protection
also work with movies.
> I'd like you to tell me whats the difference between this and SB
Strongbox provides crytographically secure protection
for the WHOLE site.
It provides a defense against brute force attack posted passwords,
referer spoofing, etc. The referenced link provides none
of that. Their software requires you to buy some other product
to protect the members area generally and then extends that
protection to the videos.
Another difference is price. Their software is $200.
Strongbox is $35 for AVS sites and $65 for pay sites.
Also, Strongbox is designed for performance and low overhead.
Their software requires reading and parsing a large disk
file with every hit, which will degrade performance.
Strongbox requires only a "stat" system call.
In short, Strongbox provides everything that script does,
plus WAY more, at a much better price.
Lastly, Strongbox has the added feature that it automatically
creates the meta files for you in order to properly stream videos.
> I also wanted to know if your SB will work in conjunction
> with updating scripts like Old Toms and stuff?
Strongbox will work with just about any script.
Often, on a site with such a script installed, one config variable
needs to be changed in order to be compatible.
This has to do with the relative vs. absolute links.
Scripts often have a config varibale to set the base URL.
This needs to be set to /members/ rather than you.com/members/.
As long as the base URL is set right, it works great.
Ray
PS - StrongBox info can be found at:
StrongBox