giskard
09-30-2002, 22:53
Hello.
As you know Im working on a brand new campaign map. Most of the work has been done, but today i got some news about my sites bandwidth limits that may effect other projects in the works.
I made small 5meg MW4 map and released on the 1st of september. It got 200 downloads and used up 5meg of my sites bandwidth. Which is not a serious problem. However with a 9gig limit and the current popularity of the MTW mods I have made so far, any custom strategic map will be atleast 6meg for a small one and can easily achieve 500 downloads in a very short period of time.
This means that if I finish and release the new Pagan Dawn V3 campaign, my site will require a major increase in bandwidth in order to cope with the downloads or will have to close until the end of the month.
Luckily where at the end of september so this month I just scrape through and don't expect to hit the same problems next month.
However my site has seen it's busiest month ever thanks to MW4 & MTW fans and it looks like some serious thought has be go into upgrading my site in order to cope with the mod making demands the community places on it in the future.
Still 25000 hits for this month may mean some sponsorship deals may work now.
Respawns grown very fast in a very short period of time and so far is solely reliant on my own ability to fund it. Which means nobody can close the site except me thankfully.
All this may effect some of you because I believe your mods will be equally as popular as mine have been. If your planning of producing a strategic map you had best look for a site with atleast 20meg of bandwidth per month available in order host it and cope with the downloads.
Forget Yahoo/Geocities.
I have been in this position before when i first opened Mechstorm because the maps where 20meg roughly and my site was flooded inside 8 hours, things are very different now though as i vastly increased my sites ability to host such files shortly after that. So I expect i'll work my way around this problem too.
In the mean time im going to work on the scripts which don't even touch my bandwidth limits. Guess i'll start editing more than just the campaigns. Then look at this problem again after christmas.
Giskard
[This message has been edited by giskard (edited 09-30-2002).]
As you know Im working on a brand new campaign map. Most of the work has been done, but today i got some news about my sites bandwidth limits that may effect other projects in the works.
I made small 5meg MW4 map and released on the 1st of september. It got 200 downloads and used up 5meg of my sites bandwidth. Which is not a serious problem. However with a 9gig limit and the current popularity of the MTW mods I have made so far, any custom strategic map will be atleast 6meg for a small one and can easily achieve 500 downloads in a very short period of time.
This means that if I finish and release the new Pagan Dawn V3 campaign, my site will require a major increase in bandwidth in order to cope with the downloads or will have to close until the end of the month.
Luckily where at the end of september so this month I just scrape through and don't expect to hit the same problems next month.
However my site has seen it's busiest month ever thanks to MW4 & MTW fans and it looks like some serious thought has be go into upgrading my site in order to cope with the mod making demands the community places on it in the future.
Still 25000 hits for this month may mean some sponsorship deals may work now.
Respawns grown very fast in a very short period of time and so far is solely reliant on my own ability to fund it. Which means nobody can close the site except me thankfully.
All this may effect some of you because I believe your mods will be equally as popular as mine have been. If your planning of producing a strategic map you had best look for a site with atleast 20meg of bandwidth per month available in order host it and cope with the downloads.
Forget Yahoo/Geocities.
I have been in this position before when i first opened Mechstorm because the maps where 20meg roughly and my site was flooded inside 8 hours, things are very different now though as i vastly increased my sites ability to host such files shortly after that. So I expect i'll work my way around this problem too.
In the mean time im going to work on the scripts which don't even touch my bandwidth limits. Guess i'll start editing more than just the campaigns. Then look at this problem again after christmas.
Giskard
[This message has been edited by giskard (edited 09-30-2002).]