So, the advantage being that a server host could possibly create a specialty download server for only there servers and there server content only, so theoretically ~/orangebox/downloads/GSN/...(maps, models, ...), and with this end conflict between separate server hosts, or am I completely mis-reading this?
I would like to take advantage of this no matter what, since all clients are going to have to re-download files anyways, so how do I rebuild my fastdownload server so that clients get the files they need in ~/orangebox/tf/downloads/... as well as how does the new links with maps work, since in the current maplist.txt it automatically checkes ~/orangebox/tf/maps/...? Sourcemod & TF2 will there be a possible cvar that could be entered into a cfg so that we could create a specialty folder in ~/orangebox/tf/downloads/"GSN"/... where "GSN" would be the cvar variable. This would allow a nicer cleaner environment. Request: BZ2 is nice and all, but i think you can get a better compression ratio with 7Zip, and my question is would it be possible with the new system to allow downloads of 7zip and possibly provide a cvar so that they system will check for those files exclusively instead of asking for .ext.bz2 and then .ext upon the fastdownload server, which creates an extra cost against the webserver, which I don't really care about, but more over about the the client. Not only that but, would it be possible to allow for a bulk download file if it is the first time joining a server. You are literally losing a major benefit if you have to request for single files over and over again since the client has to do the below. Process that is need file ==> Initiate session with server =====> Server repond to client confirming session ====> client requests file ====> server sends chunk of file ====> client repsonds recieved files ====> server sends more files .....(continue until done with specific file) However, that being said a single file request will miss that pre-connect syntax as it doesn't have to do it for every file, with multiple files it has to ask to connect to the server over and over again, which is a loss of performance and throughput, not to mention one large file will download faster then the 100 or so small files. That being said, it would be nice to have some testing of the new system conversion process since I have to do it on about ~20 servers. Proxy, one of the great advantages talked about is a proxy setup so that hosters could cache the new updates and increase the update speed for there servers, and I was curious where the documentation on that is, and what type of proxies it works with. --Thanks-- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
