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MMOG Server-Side. Eternal Linux-vs-Windows Debate
January 4, 2016 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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Each server is only as secure as its admin
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For cheaper servers, the difference between Windows and Linux can eat as much as 50% of the server rental price (though for those servers which are more or less optimal price-performance-wise observed difference was closer to 20-30%).
Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.System ArchitectureRequirement analysisDesign decisions
Read moreServer-Side Architecture. Front-End Servers and Client-Side Random Load Balancing
December 28, 2015 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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[about Round-Robin DNS] one of these returned IPs can get cached by a Big Fat DNS server, and then get distributed to many thousands of clients
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As a rule of thumb, Front-End Servers are a Good Thing™
Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.System ArchitectureDistributed systems(Re)Actors
Read moreServer-Side MMO Architecture. Naïve, Web-Based, and Classical Deployment Architectures
December 21, 2015 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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If you disrupt the game-event-currently-in-progress for more than 0.5-2 minutes, for almost-any synchronous multi-player game you won't be able to get the same players back, and will need to rollback the game event anyway.
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However, keep in mind, that all fall-tolerant solutions are complicated, costly, and for the games realm I generally consider them as an over-engineering (even by my standards).
Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.System ArchitectureDistributed systems(Re)Actors
Read moreClient-Side. Client Architecture Diagram, Threads, and Game Loop
December 14, 2015 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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To have a good concurrency model, it is not strictly necessary to program in Erlang
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Most of developers agree that FSM-based programming is beneficial in the medium- to long-run.
Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.System ArchitectureDesign decisions(Re)Actors
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