Goodbye Buddies Options

[Chapo]

The next April 20 17Buddies will close. The server on which the site is hosted will not be renewed and without any alternative, we can not continue to provide the CS maps as we have done for over 11 fantastic years. It was a great adventure, but it will stop here. Our only option for continuing is to find free php/mysql hosting server able to accommodate 400GB of maps and support 2,000 users/day. If you think you have a solution or that you can help 17Buddies, please post in this topic urgently.





Le 20 avril prochain, 17Buddies va cesser d'exister. Le serveur sur lequel nous sommes hébergés ne sera pas renouvelé et sans autre solution nous ne pourrons pas continuer à vous fournir les maps CS comme nous l'avons fait pendant ces fantastiques 11 dernières années. La seule solution pour pouvoir continuer est de trouver un serveur php/mysql gratuit capable d'acceuillir les 400Go de maps CS et de supporter nos 2000 visiteurs uniques quotidiens. Si vous pensez avoir une solution qui puisse nous aider, merci de poster rapidement dans ce topic.

[Sajin Gaming]

I've been afraid of increasing of data and traffic cause trouble for 17buddies.

Suggestions

1.Separate maps for HL1(Goldsrc) based games from later engine based one.Maps for Goldsrc are basically small size and later ones are very big.Archive of old maps is very precious,people can get newer ones everywhere.
2.Replace duplicate map with redirection.If there are same map,ideally binary equal,you should replace maps which derived from original with link to it.
3.Delete extremely low quality map.17buddies contains many low quality maps.Many of them are nearly worthless.However,I think deleting need significant vote of multiple higher level users.
4.Get rid common files from each archive. ex:as_riverside.wad,as_tundra.wad