Edit 2010: Slightly updated for Uniform Server!
Greetings.
This tutorial is for people who are using Uniform Server(a), with Nicaw ACC.
(My english isn't 100% perfect, but its atleast understandable)
In order to follow my tutorial, you need a photobucket account, you can register an account here: HERE
When somebody connects to your home page, you are uploading pictures to them, etc header and lots of other smaller pictures to make your homepage look nice. This tutorial will show you how you can make them download thoose pictures from etc photobucket, instead of you wasting your upstream on uploading the pictures to them.
For an example:
You are hosting an otserver, I want to test it, I enter the link to your homepage, and I see a custom picture from your ot, etc "Welcome to Znote". That picture probaly has a size between 30kb, and 150kb.
Normally, the hoster of the server, is using his network, to send you thoose 30 - 150kb everytime you refresh the site without cache on the Nicaw ACC.
But since that hoster was a bit smart, following my tutorial
He will only send 0.001kb~ [a link that will automatic make you download the 30 - 150kb] from a picture hosting service. [imageshack/photobucket]
Ok, lets getting started, in this tutorial, I will go after the inferno layout, you can choose another layout if you want too.
You open your Uniserv folder, and you open the www folder you have nicaw files in. Then you open the skins folder.
\www\skins
In this folder, you will see javascripts, and CSS documents.
As you see on this photo, I have marked inferno CSS document, open that with a normal text document.
In the text document, search for:
you will probaly get something like this:
No repeat means that when somebody is browsing your page, the picture will not repeat every click you do, etc when you click on create account, highscores etc. But it will still upload to you each time you refresh the site without cache. 1 time is 1 time to much.
In my text document, you will se this:
As you see on my text document, instead of uploading the picture myself, I have put in a link from photobucket, a direct link to the picture. So when ppl enter your page, they will
download that picture from photobucket instead of you!
For thoose of you who are experienced, this shoud be enough for you to understand how to do this. But I will keep on this tutorial for newbeginners.
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Ok, how can you make your pictures come instead of mine? How did I make that url to download exacly the correct picture? etc etc etc....
When your Nicaw ACC is running Inferno, Inferno used the pictures that is located in a folder named Inferno in this skins folder.
On this picture I have marked that folder:
Inside of that folder, there are the pictures that is beeing used to make your page look nice, also its thoose pictures that can slows your internett down.
Now login at http://photobucket.com/ and upload ALL pictures in that inferno folder.
You will get a direct link to every one of thoose pictures.
Now look:
Simply add that link instead of the image your uploading! Remember to make sure the direct link is the same picture as that picture your uploading.
Now if you look at the text document, scroll longer down, and you will find the other pictures you also where uploading, do the same thing to them! Whollah! Your done. Now you will upload alot of less bytes when you are hosting your online account page, and so now if you have a popular ot, the players will get a little less spikes, and such things.!
For thoose of you who thinks this dosn't matter, since its only a couple bytes? There is a cruel way to "dos" attack through web pages, not actually dos attack? Its rather called opera, open 20 pages and repeat refresh each 10 sec...
There are diffrent ways ppl can be cruel and lagg your server through your online page, so doing this will strongly prevent that.
I don't know if this has been posted before, I tryed to search for it, but didn't find any.
This tutorial is made by me, it's not copyed from any other places.
Comments please
+REP me if you like this please
Note that this will only help you a little bit, you won't be able to have like 1000 players online just because of this!
This is probaly posted in the wrong place lol <.< Just move it to the correct board if this is wrong please.
Greetings.
This tutorial is for people who are using Uniform Server(a), with Nicaw ACC.
(My english isn't 100% perfect, but its atleast understandable)
In order to follow my tutorial, you need a photobucket account, you can register an account here: HERE
When somebody connects to your home page, you are uploading pictures to them, etc header and lots of other smaller pictures to make your homepage look nice. This tutorial will show you how you can make them download thoose pictures from etc photobucket, instead of you wasting your upstream on uploading the pictures to them.
For an example:
You are hosting an otserver, I want to test it, I enter the link to your homepage, and I see a custom picture from your ot, etc "Welcome to Znote". That picture probaly has a size between 30kb, and 150kb.
Normally, the hoster of the server, is using his network, to send you thoose 30 - 150kb everytime you refresh the site without cache on the Nicaw ACC.
But since that hoster was a bit smart, following my tutorial
He will only send 0.001kb~ [a link that will automatic make you download the 30 - 150kb] from a picture hosting service. [imageshack/photobucket]Ok, lets getting started, in this tutorial, I will go after the inferno layout, you can choose another layout if you want too.
You open your Uniserv folder, and you open the www folder you have nicaw files in. Then you open the skins folder.
\www\skins
In this folder, you will see javascripts, and CSS documents.
As you see on this photo, I have marked inferno CSS document, open that with a normal text document.
In the text document, search for:
Code:
blockquote {
padding: 0 3em;
background: urlyou will probaly get something like this:
Code:
blockquote {
padding: 0 3em;
background: url([COLOR="Red"]TheImageYourUploading[/COLOR]) no-repeat 1em 0;
font-style: italic;
}No repeat means that when somebody is browsing your page, the picture will not repeat every click you do, etc when you click on create account, highscores etc. But it will still upload to you each time you refresh the site without cache. 1 time is 1 time to much.
In my text document, you will se this:
As you see on my text document, instead of uploading the picture myself, I have put in a link from photobucket, a direct link to the picture. So when ppl enter your page, they will
download that picture from photobucket instead of you!
For thoose of you who are experienced, this shoud be enough for you to understand how to do this. But I will keep on this tutorial for newbeginners.
================================================================
Ok, how can you make your pictures come instead of mine? How did I make that url to download exacly the correct picture? etc etc etc....
When your Nicaw ACC is running Inferno, Inferno used the pictures that is located in a folder named Inferno in this skins folder.
On this picture I have marked that folder:
Inside of that folder, there are the pictures that is beeing used to make your page look nice, also its thoose pictures that can slows your internett down.
Now login at http://photobucket.com/ and upload ALL pictures in that inferno folder.
You will get a direct link to every one of thoose pictures.
Now look:
Code:
blockquote {
padding: 0 3em;
background: url([COLOR="Red"]TheImageYourUploading[/COLOR]) no-repeat 1em 0;
font-style: italic;
}Simply add that link instead of the image your uploading! Remember to make sure the direct link is the same picture as that picture your uploading.
Code:
blockquote {
padding: 0 3em;
background: url([COLOR="Green"]YourDirectLinkFromPhotobucket[/COLOR]) no-repeat 1em 0;
font-style: italic;
}Now if you look at the text document, scroll longer down, and you will find the other pictures you also where uploading, do the same thing to them! Whollah! Your done. Now you will upload alot of less bytes when you are hosting your online account page, and so now if you have a popular ot, the players will get a little less spikes, and such things.!
For thoose of you who thinks this dosn't matter, since its only a couple bytes? There is a cruel way to "dos" attack through web pages, not actually dos attack? Its rather called opera, open 20 pages and repeat refresh each 10 sec...
There are diffrent ways ppl can be cruel and lagg your server through your online page, so doing this will strongly prevent that.
I don't know if this has been posted before, I tryed to search for it, but didn't find any.
This tutorial is made by me, it's not copyed from any other places.
Comments please
+REP me if you like this please
Note that this will only help you a little bit, you won't be able to have like 1000 players online just because of this!
This is probaly posted in the wrong place lol <.< Just move it to the correct board if this is wrong please.
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