The actual resources used by IIS to serve a full server of 20 players a
large bzippedfile is negligible. What DOES get hit is your bandwidth. If
you don't have a solid uplink and NIC, you're going to get lag. CPU wise,
no problem at all.
The mime types for the bz2 archives can be set as application/download.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:14 PM, DontWannaName! <ad...@topnotchclan.com>wrote:
> Is it bad to run fast DL on the actual box of the server using either IIS
> or
> apache, I know apache would probably use more resources but I cant figure
> out the MIME types for IIS. Wouldnt it also add a security risk? Im looking
> to get the fastest download times. :D
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Adam Nowacki <no...@xpam.de> wrote:
>
> > Works but sadly not for the map. If client has the map ('.bsp' file)
> > then any other required file will be downloaded, like '.nav'.
> >
> > Brent Veal wrote:
> > > Does anyone know if sv_downloadurl works for Left 4 Dead servers? I
> have
> > > everything set up the same way that CLAN RCR described (but with the
> l4d
> > > folder structure, of course) but whenever the server switches to a
> custom
> > > map, anyone who doesnt have the map gets booted to the main menu.
> >
> >
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