Regarding direct lobby downloads:

[Jonanin]

I can vouch for DreamHost, I run spring installer mirror + another mirror (fpsbanana), I'm using 1tb/mo now, no throttles or anything.

It's great...

[Licho]

Btw if you want to "connect" your mirror to P2P system let me know. Central tracker just needs a way to translate spring hash to file name on your server.
There are several ways to do it.

[Forboding Angel]

okie, sounds like a plan. If I'm not around, bug lurker about it :)

[Licho]

Well your mirror is already connected that way :)
From day one..
http://evolutionrts.info/gethash.php
is used by tracker to determine file from hash :)

[AF]

Can someone upload a script somewhere that does this that we can edit rather than us all pestering each other for it?

[Licho]

Well there is not yet a script which extracts hash from sdz or sd7 directly. TradeMark was working on it, but im not sure if its done or not.
I only have tool which extracts it for files in your spring folder using unitsync.

[Forboding Angel]

Well your mirror is already connected that way :)
From day one..
http://evolutionrts.info/gethash.php
is used by tracker to determine file from hash :)

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I stand corrected

Edit: we agreed that stats were interesting right?

2008-02-16 0.0056 MB
2008-02-17 30.3018 MB
2008-02-18 141.1631 MB
2008-02-19 0.0036 MB
2008-02-20 108.6516 MB
2008-02-21 22.6837 MB
2008-02-22 454.0520 MB
2008-02-23 4060.0813 MB
2008-02-24 12440.0911 MB
2008-02-25 12952.9195 MB
2008-02-26 17781.0017 MB
2008-02-27 16968.6688 MB
2008-02-28 13876.4078 MB
2008-02-29 20314.5085 MB
2008-03-01 38393.8780 MB
2008-03-02 31468.0456 MB
2008-03-03 14227.4044 MB
Total: 183239.8681 MB

[lurker]

NOiZE: TOS seems a bit strict, since it explicitly disallows use as mirror / filedump.

Examples of unacceptable material on all Shared and Reseller servers include:

IRC Bots, Proxy Scripts / Anonymizers, Pirated Software / Warez, image, filedump, mirror, or banner-ad services (similar to rapidshare, photobucket, or commercial banner ad rotation), topsites, [...]

It's not a filedump because they're being downloaded constantly. It's also more download site than mirror, especially when you consider just how many of those maps are Forb's.

[clericvash]

Tbh I really don't see it happening, however even so, with the ca downloader mixing http with torrent, prolly not a big deal. I just was trying to say in this thread that if you wanted to make the lobby dl maps auto, then do it. I don't care.

Even if there were 20 gb of downloads per day, I would still only be using 10% of my total alloted bandwidth (unless I really screwed up some math).

Alternatively, if I don't use it for some purpose such as this, then what's the point of me paying for a massive server that i don't need? I can get 5 gigs of space from insanegb which is a billion times more than I would ever need just for evolution.

I would rather that the server be actually used for something. I have issues paying for something and then never using it.

You do realise that to use 5TB in a month your site will throttle whatever servers your on? They will cancel your account, don't risk losing your own website.

[Forboding Angel]

It's not a filedump because they're being downloaded constantly. It's also more download site than mirror, especially when you consider just how many of those maps are Forb's.

Thats true. Never Occurred to me.

@cleric:
If it was posing a significant financial drain on me I might be more inclined to care. As it isn't, I don't.