Shoutbox

It retries every 5 minutes... in normal situation, it is supposed to check only once a week... the reason why I want to remove this feature, even if I worked hard on it, is that even by checking once a week, it will make several 100,000 connections every week... on a shared server such as the one that will host patchou.com, it is impossible and I don't want to buy a dedicated server anymore because of all the related problems. For the workload, remember that it would be a one time shot.... even if the server has difficulties the first day for example, still, a lot of people will be able to download the update file so the work load will decrease quickly. If Im in the mood, I'll release this update this evening in fact, that way it will prevent new users to add to the current count .

* Patchou just returned from the shower with an idea!
What I may do is the following: change this stupid 5 minute retry into something more intelligent and direct the auto-update connection to another domain which I'm going to register this evening. That was so simple.... the benefit of this is that as long as the domain does not directs to a server, the connection will just fail and nobody will be hurt. Then, when I want people to be updated, I only have to find someone kind enough to lend me some of its server bandwidth for some weeks! at that point, the 5minute bug will have been corrected so the auto-update file could for example be put on mess.be (that's a supposition, just an example) and the auto-update domain just setup to forward to mess.bet for one month, then just reset it untill the next update.

Dont know if I'm clear, I gotta go to work.... but anyway, I'll release a patched version soon soon soon because I need my server back.

Patchou