.msx server: database or ascii text

[Ricardo Bittencourt Vidigal Leitao]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Arno Bakker wrote:

> (.msx server)
> So lets have it... why not use a database??

        I have two reasons:

        1. Making it a simple text file is easier to make mirrors.
Everyone with a home page can mirror it, without the need to program in
cgi, perl, php or whatever.

        2. Making it a small ascii text reduce the load in the server.
MEP had to remove the its games due to large bandwidth requested,
this will not be the case if the server is just a small text which can 
be only partially downloaded.

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