Jason Carr Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share Posted January 26, 2022 We now finally have our forums server moved over as well. So we're done with server migrations now. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjser Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Ive been having issues downloading files over 500mb today...they always stoop at 500mb..is this related to the server move? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 27, 2022 Author Share Posted January 27, 2022 17 hours ago, fjser said: Ive been having issues downloading files over 500mb today...they always stoop at 500mb..is this related to the server move? It was, thanks. Should be fixed now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadK9 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 (edited) @Jason Carr Well things just got worse for me here in the UK, gone backwards close to how it was before the move to the Netherlands hosting. Seeing very slow speeds, 5mins to get the newest beta, and the update meta was slow as well, not quite as slow as it was a few years ago, but very noticable. I get why stuff needs to change, but it wasn't an enjoyable time back then, and im hoping it doesn't fall back to the same levels. Im on a gigabit fibre, with no issues, tested files from around the world just to make sure, and speeds were all very reasonble. Edited January 27, 2022 by MadK9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 2 hours ago, MadK9 said: @Jason Carr Well things just got worse for me here in the UK, gone backwards close to how it was before the move to the Netherlands hosting. Seeing very slow speeds, 5mins to get the newest beta, and the update meta was slow as well, not quite as slow as it was a few years ago, but very noticable. I get why stuff needs to change, but it wasn't an enjoyable time back then, and im hoping it doesn't fall back to the same levels. Im on a gigabit fibre, with no issues, tested files from around the world just to make sure, and speeds were all very reasonble. Unfortunately there's always going to be tradeoffs, unless we have servers all over the world, which would be prohibitively expensive. 5 minutes to download a 250MB update might seem like a long time, but users in the US were sometimes seeing updates take a half hour for that same 250MB file because the servers were in the Netherlands, which was borderline unacceptable. Those deep-sea cables can only transfer so well, apparently, though I would have hoped for better speeds. The speeds may improve in the future, but unfortunately we can only do what we can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazuki Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 (edited) I just wanted to know, how long have the servers been in the Netherlands before the move to the US? Edited January 28, 2022 by Hazuki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadK9 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 13 hours ago, Jason Carr said: Unfortunately there's always going to be tradeoffs, unless we have servers all over the world, which would be prohibitively expensive. 5 minutes to download a 250MB update might seem like a long time, but users in the US were sometimes seeing updates take a half hour for that same 250MB file because the servers were in the Netherlands, which was borderline unacceptable. Those deep-sea cables can only transfer so well, apparently, though I would have hoped for better speeds. The speeds may improve in the future, but unfortunately we can only do what we can do. Yeah no worries Jason, it does seem to be a lot better today, i just had visions of it going back to the way it was with downloads going at like 30kb/s. So its all good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominikabra Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Since most of what's being served is static content, have you considered some sort of CDN? The caching at edge would definitely improve download speeds for multiple regions and there are reasonably priced options out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 15 minutes ago, dominikabra said: Since most of what's being served is static content, have you considered some sort of CDN? The caching at edge would definitely improve download speeds for multiple regions and there are reasonably priced options out there. Yes, we have considered CDNs. But considering the amount and total size of the media we serve, as well as the dynamic nature of the games database, it probably wouldn't be easy, nor would it be cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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