script to limit simultaneous connections to a server

[pregaming]

I have this PERL script that I use to interact with the server and limit simultaneous connections to a certain directory (for downloads).

PERL, however as you know is very taxing on the server using a lot of CPU and I was wondering if this could be recoded into PHP.

Basically my question is -- can php work directly with the server to limit user connections?

Thanks!

[HarryF]

If you've got one or two users hammering the server, have a look at the sleep() and usleep() functions. If you assign a session variable to each user on your site you can then apply sleep / usleep selectively, perhaps based on how quickly they're requesting pages, to slow them up.