Don't forget good speeds :v Many cheap hosts, while providing more bandwidth than you could ever use in a month, will not do well with multiple concurrent downloads at high speeds. I'm lucky enough these days to have a 2x100mbit line on my dedicated server to serve the maps as well as the servers, but I remember the woes of some of the shared hosts we went with when an entire server full of people were downloading a map (and, of course, there's no way via svdownloadurl to get from multiple locations without doing something serverside with htaccess and a randomized redirect)
-Atreus On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:06 PM, <valvesoftware....@dynamicbits.com> wrote: > Unless you are doing this professionally, you will find that organizing > a group of people and keeping up with the money collection is too time > consuming to be worth it. All one needs is a good $5-8/month shared > hosting package. Search for highly rated hosts with good reviews. All > you are looking for is uptime and bandwidth. You don't need any features > aside from the ability to directly download files. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
