Mod Hosting

**General Sun** · September 08, 2007, 05:00 PM

I'm opening my previously private file hosting site to everyone.

It's located here:
http://generalsun.dreamhosters.com/uploads/

It has a MAX file size of 800 MB.

Once uploaded all files are located at the url http://generalsun.dreamhosters.com/uploads/files/

If you want to hotlink feel free, just append your file name to the end of that url I linked there.

Of course be intelligent and don't upload the rtw cds or something. One idiot will ruin it for everyone. Also this is not any remote file storage server, there are other "web2.0" services for that so keep it total war or video game related.

I don't expect to ever have to delete any files so all files should be safe forever on that server. Hmm and that's it. I hope you'll all find this useful.

**alpaca** · September 08, 2007, 05:13 PM

Great offer. Could I ask how much bandwidth you have?

**General Sun** · September 08, 2007, 06:09 PM

The actual number is huge, but dreamhost is a notorious overseller so I'm sure this will put the server through its paces. If you want an actual number dreamhost promised me 3.5 TB a month. In my experience what oversellers hate are database connections not bandwidth use. Though I suppose if the bandwith use from this starts to approach the limit dreamhost might start to have a problem as well heh.

**alpaca** · September 09, 2007, 05:14 AM

Originally Posted by General Sun

The actual number is huge, but dreamhost is a notorious overseller so I'm sure this will put the server through its paces. If you want an actual number dreamhost promised me 3.5 TB a month. In my experience what oversellers hate are database connections not bandwidth use. Though I suppose if the bandwith use from this starts to approach the limit dreamhost might start to have a problem as well heh.

Actually 3.5TB isn't that much: Say we have a 350MB download with 10k downloaders. Voilà 3.5TB

Anyways just saying you should monitor it if you want to host one of the more anticipated mods. Still a great offer for the community

Edit: The reason why I asked is because I remember the first Chiv release well. We went through 4 or 5 TB in two weeks or so all in all. We should've hosted it via BitTorrent or on public sites but we didn't expect something close to 20000 downloads.

**General Sun** · September 09, 2007, 09:11 AM

You're right, this does have its limitations and dreamhost charges rather big for overage. I'll try to find some ways to connect my private servers together and create alternate mirrors from servers bought from other companies.

But you're very right, if you have a very popular mod you will want multiple mirrors definitely.

**Arakorn** · September 11, 2007, 10:50 AM

Yp, FATW also uses Dreamhost and although they have a very large storage space, the bandwidth can quickly go if you have just released something, especially if you host the forums there too!

**General Sun** · September 11, 2007, 03:26 PM

I don't, I have over 20 servers.

Edit: Just purchased an additional 3 TB from DH.

**Kushan** · September 13, 2007, 12:57 AM

Thanks GS.

Kushan

**makanyane** · September 26, 2007, 01:55 PM

Thanks for the offer General Sun

Note about this added to the sticky thread here and Wiki page here

If you find you're getting too much traffic yell and I'll take it off those lists!

(btw I managed to send it a mymod.cfg file that wasn't actually necessary, was experimenting to see what upload options were and it took it instantly

, sorry - just in case you want to tidy up!

)

**Darkarbiter** · September 28, 2007, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by alpaca

Actually 3.5TB isn't that much: Say we have a 350MB download with 10k downloaders. Voilà 3.5TB

Anyways just saying you should monitor it if you want to host one of the more anticipated mods. Still a great offer for the community

Edit: The reason why I asked is because I remember the first Chiv release well. We went through 4 or 5 TB in two weeks or so all in all. We should've hosted it via BitTorrent or on public sites but we didn't expect something close to 20000 downloads.

Certainly from a downloaders perspective it's usually better to download it via full speed FTP (as in as fast as I can handle dl speed) however I'm sure the amount of cost for that balances itself out with the inconvenience of torrents.

**alpaca** · September 29, 2007, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by Darkarbiter

Certainly from a downloaders perspective it's usually better to download it via full speed FTP (as in as fast as I can handle dl speed) however I'm sure the amount of cost for that balances itself out with the inconvenience of torrents.

Not exactly. The problem is that when thousands of people try to download from the same mirror, there will either be people who will have to wait (capped) or the individual download speed will suffer.

BitTorrent just has a much larger network-wide throughput than most mods can offer via servers (and there's added inconvenience if you use things like Rapidshare)

**Darkarbiter** · September 30, 2007, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by alpaca

Not exactly. The problem is that when thousands of people try to download from the same mirror, there will either be people who will have to wait (capped) or the individual download speed will suffer.

BitTorrent just has a much larger network-wide throughput than most mods can offer via servers (and there's added inconvenience if you use things like Rapidshare)

As I said... a full speed ftp (your not capped).

That is exactly what I'm saying. Bittorent is much cheaper for the person running the server however it is a bit inconvenient for the end user.