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Originally posted by LazarusLong42:
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
The parts for the server have been ordered and should ship tomorrow--or Monday if they don't consider Saturday a business day. If all goes well, PBW may me back up within a month of going down.
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
YES YES YES!
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Um... not quite that simple. PBW has to be run on its own server because of its own little quirks and problems. Plus it needs to have quite a bit of bandwidth--at least 384K upload, we think, to keep it reasonable. That's at least $100/mo at most hosting places. Doug has been getting hosting free through his company, but that may be becoming less and less feasible.
Ways to cut down on required bandwidth (if ever needed):
1) Move the forums to a different server if you can find someone else that could host them...
2) Move the shipset downloads to different servers as well.
3) Remove the option to attach the game turns to the emails that get sent out. (still allow Users to reply to the email with their turn attached though!). Email attachments suck up extra bandwidth since they are encoded. And some people (like me) will get the email at work sometimes and so when I get home I goto PBW and grab the turn file again.
I'm sure there are other ways of course...
Re: PBW Server Problems--Take 2
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