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Hello, the pyter is inflating, so start a bank. That is all.

Who is it for 50 points?

I have spent a lot more time today improving the web server preformance. The website is now running FastCGI with multiple different cache and code compilers/optimizers running. MySQL queries are being resolved 33% faster on the forums and 70% faster on the CMS. The page load time has also decreased overall by on average 40%. Furthermore, the server will be capable of a lot more simultaneous requests as the server will no longer render the site for every request if nothing has changed. I hope these ...

Well, CS:S beta seems to be the same damn thing as the regular CS:S with the achievements added on and some GUI improvements.

On the server side of things, it runs on the Orangebox TF2 engine.
In a way this should have increased some security related issues, however, the OB engine does use significantly more processing power and memory. I guess it's a mix of good and bad.

Sorry to all those who didn't get into the beta. On another note: It took forever to get the ...

A TF2 update came out today for the servers. Unfortunately, it's a very miinor fix and there seems to be no major addition, and it is definitely not the engineer update. We will all have to keep waiting!

Stopping the game server...
Game server has been stopped.
Checking bootstrapper version ...
Updating Installation
Updating 'Team Fortress 2 Content' from version 145 to version 146

38.32% /orangebox\tf\bin\server.dll

Checking/Installing

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