Offer dedicated Download Server

[Just4ngel]

To clarify my suggestion: It would be of advantage and partial disadvantage to offer a download of the client over through your own servers

Pros:

• Credibility
  
  • Staying away from ad-heavy and overall UX-unfriendly sites like Mediafire or Mega does not impact the user experience as negatively as it does right now.
    

  [*]Customization

  • Hosting the client download on Team Revolutions own servers, allows for further customization of the download process. (e.g. the download has started and the user gets auto redirected to a specific site, a "getting started" page for example, who knows.)
    

  [*]Safety

  • As a content distributor, safety of those files should be a major concern. When hosted on third-party storage, the only instance protecting the files from possible corruption is the third party itself a process in which Team Revolution has no insights into, or at least only partial insight. Additionally, the ads shown on Mediafire tend to be of malicious intend.
    

  [*]Cheap

  • Storage is cheap.
    

Cons:

• Money
  
  • Ignoring that hosting these files on your own storage is rather cheap nowadays, it does cost a slight amount of money.
    

  [*]Safety

  • Despite hosting the client download files on your own server and gaining more control over what happens with those files, there are also security risks that come with that. (E.g. a lack of IT-security skills)
    

[Shaolan]

Hey @just4ngel ,

 

I talked several times with Walross about it.

Especially the ads and all these mirrors impact the user experience. Also, some of the ads are not pg friendly.

The Windows Auto Patcher runs already on a custom server but for now, we can't offer an own server for our clients right now.

We needed 50 TB Traffic last month just on Mediafire for the clients and our current infrastructure can't handle this traffic usage.

Most of all server hosters just offer a fair usage policy with 1-5TB traffic each month.

 

I hope we can offer it one day.

[Just4ngel]

@Shaolan

 

Ye, I figured that that might be another major issue, but only afterwards. However... I don't know how favorable switching server hosts might be for you and/or how suitable their hardware is for you, but I am pretty sure that German server host "hetzner" (idk if I may link, this but.. eh its not really competition) offer unlimited traffic on their root servers for a fair price.

Good friends of mine have worked with them for a couple of years and were overall satisfied.

 

Would something like that even be an option for you?