slickdf Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 The game switching feature on there at the moment isnt as good as I was hoping. What I was hoping was that someone can choose there game and it will delete the current one and setup a new one with the same slots ect... The files could just be downloaded from the FTP. Any chance to see this in the future? edit:.................................................................... also any way you could possibly make the ftp transfer files faster. when i use a ftp client like filezilla it does files really fast using a stupid speed. when the game panel does it from the ftp it seems to take 10x longer. any ideas, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studeggle Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Personally I think that would need to be something accomplished through billing. Many providers offer numerous different pricing structures for different games. So this would be a case of offering the client credit for unused portion when cancleing a server, and allowing them to order a new server off of that credit. This is also probably something that would not be wanted by many GSP as I personally find in a 6 month time period on a server 75% of my support time is the first 24hrs of the server. Most clients get there server up and running and then run it without much tweaking, so doing the above would likely result in a significant increase in support requests. --edit-- Additional problem with this, is hard drive space is cheap (I personally don't own any machines with less then a 1TB of HD space) so storing several game installs for one person isn't that big a deal. But performance is pricy, unless you go with SCSI drives you are seriously limited on the amount of read and writing a drive can handle at any point in time. A common place for game lag now is overtaxed HDs. This allows clients to freely place large strain on your systems HDs. And with the average gaming rig now holding an average of 10 or so clients this feature could very easily result in support tickets for laggy servers, becuase to many clients are changing out 1 - 2 GB game installs. I'll stick to allowing both games to reside on the drive, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshdch Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Yeah i can see that. What slick is trying to get at is having say a CSS server, But wanting to switch to DODS or BF2 with a click of a button. Of course it will take to change all the files but kind of a delete and install back with a different port and so on. Its something which would help all of the GSP's the only problem i can see here is if your charging £1.00 or $1 per slot for source games but BF2 your charging £1.50/$1.50, you don't want someone to buy a source game change to bf2 just defeats the point of having prices per slot on different games. If you can limit to its own price range so all games on £1/$1 a slot would help. I think it would draw more customers in, Its something which me and slick are wanting to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slickdf Posted October 30, 2008 Author Share Posted October 30, 2008 any help on the FTP issue it takes ages to download all the files when there are 1000's it takes hours and hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicToMeyeZR Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 um.. ZIP your files.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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