22 Jun 11, 08:02AM
I did my own web-based serverbrowser - in python, not PHP though - but IMHO it's not a good idea to make this a publically available service on this website.
The reason being: we really need all the responsiveness & bandwidth we can for the masterserver - I guess you folks will understand that it'd be no good if it led to problems in-game. The forum already takes up a lot of ressources.
Also, in such a high-impact application as this (web-serverbrowser) is, for this site to use an unbuffered version would be equal to having a "Go Go Go DDoS"-button blinking away :-P
For a time I was actually contemplating building the buffered version from my proof-of-concept python-code - just showing the Top-10 servers (from an editorial list!) and their states as buffered from a (let's say) run-every-10-minutes poll.
The reason being: we really need all the responsiveness & bandwidth we can for the masterserver - I guess you folks will understand that it'd be no good if it led to problems in-game. The forum already takes up a lot of ressources.
Also, in such a high-impact application as this (web-serverbrowser) is, for this site to use an unbuffered version would be equal to having a "Go Go Go DDoS"-button blinking away :-P
For a time I was actually contemplating building the buffered version from my proof-of-concept python-code - just showing the Top-10 servers (from an editorial list!) and their states as buffered from a (let's say) run-every-10-minutes poll.