Wow thanks for all the feedback...
On the server I am currently using i have over 1TB bandwidth and over 1000GB space, I think it should do for a while.
I could so rig sv_downloadurl to do that.. never thought of that... if it becomes nessessary I will look into that.
As far as sounds and stuff I was going to just start by loading on the mani and/or the other popular ones, and I don't think the bandwidth will be too much for those since it's not THAT big plus everyone only needs to download it once.
I think we should try to change our thinking away from the number of servers that will use it and try to think of it on a user level... People need to download maps one time each, if we have 10 servers and 50 people it becomes irrelevant how many servers we have using it because they only need to download the file one time on one server.
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So I was playing around with this yesterday and I'm trying to figure out the best options to upload maps.. HTTP uploading by itself to my knowledge caps at 2MB unless you change settings in your browser.. So I was thinking of making a java or flash (or finding a prebuilt uploader script).. I was also looking into using anonymous ftp.. my latest idea was to set it up so you can upload files to the ftp server but with the permissions that you can write and not read, so after you upload a file you can't see whats there (to avoid people from deleting things and stuff) but I already found a few problems with that in trying to break it... If I do use the ftp (it uploads to a non-http-accessable area, then I would setup a cronjob of a php script like every 10 min or so that would search in the folder for maps, do the map verification stuff, if it passes to compress it and move it to the correct area, if it fails delete it.
I've setup a pretty weak looking website for it to get things rolling.. http://source.mattsfiles.net (yea I'm not very creative) Also if anyone has any sugguestions on what to call this thing, currently I called it "Matt's Files: Source" But I think it's dumb and too long.. Theres also a forum I put on, feel free to go post a hello or something so I don't look like a complete dumbass talking to myself
http://forum.mattsfiles.net
Also someone sugguested to me about putting something like most downloaded maps and stuff.. that could be fun..
Off to class.. back in a few hours to keep working it...
On the server I am currently using i have over 1TB bandwidth and over 1000GB space, I think it should do for a while.
I could so rig sv_downloadurl to do that.. never thought of that... if it becomes nessessary I will look into that.
As far as sounds and stuff I was going to just start by loading on the mani and/or the other popular ones, and I don't think the bandwidth will be too much for those since it's not THAT big plus everyone only needs to download it once.
I think we should try to change our thinking away from the number of servers that will use it and try to think of it on a user level... People need to download maps one time each, if we have 10 servers and 50 people it becomes irrelevant how many servers we have using it because they only need to download the file one time on one server.
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So I was playing around with this yesterday and I'm trying to figure out the best options to upload maps.. HTTP uploading by itself to my knowledge caps at 2MB unless you change settings in your browser.. So I was thinking of making a java or flash (or finding a prebuilt uploader script).. I was also looking into using anonymous ftp.. my latest idea was to set it up so you can upload files to the ftp server but with the permissions that you can write and not read, so after you upload a file you can't see whats there (to avoid people from deleting things and stuff) but I already found a few problems with that in trying to break it... If I do use the ftp (it uploads to a non-http-accessable area, then I would setup a cronjob of a php script like every 10 min or so that would search in the folder for maps, do the map verification stuff, if it passes to compress it and move it to the correct area, if it fails delete it.
I've setup a pretty weak looking website for it to get things rolling.. http://source.mattsfiles.net (yea I'm not very creative) Also if anyone has any sugguestions on what to call this thing, currently I called it "Matt's Files: Source" But I think it's dumb and too long.. Theres also a forum I put on, feel free to go post a hello or something so I don't look like a complete dumbass talking to myself
http://forum.mattsfiles.netAlso someone sugguested to me about putting something like most downloaded maps and stuff.. that could be fun..
Off to class.. back in a few hours to keep working it...