[crossfire] new metaserver

[Mitch Obrian]

I can also host a slave metaserver.

--- Brendan Lally <
     
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      mwedel at sonic.net
      
       06/02/05 08:23 AM >>>
     
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      > 1) Has someone agreed to run the metametaserver? 
     
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      What about the slave 
     
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      > metaservers?
     
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      I can host one, maybe two, but this assumes the use
     
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      of HTTP.
     
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      > 4) Has anyone considered the approach where all
     
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      the servers talk to the 
     
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      > metametaserver (lets call it the master
     
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      metaserver), and all the metaservers 
     
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      > just regularly pull updates from the master
     
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      metaserver?  
     
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      That is pretty much what I have been doing, except
     
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      with all metaservers being 'passive' and without the
     
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      metametaserver being protected.
     
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      >  Just some thoughts.  I'd probably still be good
     
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      to rewrite the metaserver 
     
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      >logic, but IMO, having the servers talk to web
     
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      servers is an extra complication 
     
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      >- pretty much all metaservers that are out there
     
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      (certainly netrek at a minimum) 
     
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      > use their own protocol for the servers to update
     
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      the metaserver.
     
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      I know that freeciv uses HTTP POSTs to send data to
     
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      its metaserver.
     
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      As it is HTTP is simpler, there are libraries
     
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      (libcurl) that make it easier than dealing with
     
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      sockets directly, and when there is a web server
     
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      sitting in the middle then issues like threading,
     
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      locking and blocking are dealt with automagically.
     
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      Web servers often can behefit from things like
     
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      caching also, and it may be possible to get
     
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      compression for free too (I haven't looked into
     
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      mod_gzip in detail yet).
     
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      It is also far easier to find places to host.
     
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