This sounds like an interesting idea, but how well does this scale? What happends when 10 people are downloading from your site? What happens when 1000 people are downloading from your site... or, let's look at the figures.
http://www.steampowered.com/status/game_stats.html This page last updated: 7:30am PST (15:30 GMT), November 18 2005 Average unique users per month: 2,455,041 Game Current Players Current Servers Player Minutes / Month CS:S 36,419 24,699 1.172 billion DOD:S 1,736 1,973 86.385 million ====================================================================== Source 38155 1258385000 10% 3815.5 125838500 DL= 5MB 19077.5 (MB) 629192500 GB 18.63 614445.80 These figures assume one map download @ 5 MB w/ 10% of DOD:S and CS:S players. How many custom maps? Now, assuming that you will have players pulling files non stop, who has the unmetered bandwidth and web server to facilitate this? A central place for servers to odownload files is one thing, but a player download spot would be a major undertaking. Just a though. -D On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ben Kennish wrote: > Neil Lathwood wrote: > > Indeed your right: > > Yeah that was gonna be what I planned to do. > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
