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Development & Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games, page 14:

MMOG Server-Side. Eternal Linux-vs-Windows Debate

posted January 4, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Each server is only as secure as its admin”
Another Quote:	“For cheaper servers, the difference between Windows and Linux can eat as much as 50% of the server rental price (though for those servers which are more or less optimal price-performance-wise observed difference was closer to 20-30%).”
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posted December 28, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“[about Round-Robin DNS] one of these returned IPs can get cached by a Big Fat DNS server, and then get distributed to many thousands of clients”
Another Quote:	“As a rule of thumb, Front-End Servers are a Good Thing™”
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posted December 21, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“If you disrupt the game-event-currently-in-progress for more than 0.5-2 minutes, for almost-any synchronous multi-player game you won’t be able to get the same players back, and will need to rollback the game event anyway.”
Another Quote:	“However, keep in mind, that all fall-tolerant solutions are complicated, costly, and for the games realm I generally consider them as an over-engineering (even by my standards).”
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posted December 14, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“To have a good concurrency model, it is not strictly necessary to program in Erlang”
Another Quote:	“Most of developers agree that FSM-based programming is beneficial in the medium- to long-run.”
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posted December 7, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“After your logic has failed in production, you can “replay” this inputs-log on your functionally identical in-house system, and the bug will be reproduced at the very same point where it has originally happened.”
Another Quote:	“You can implement your Finite State Machine as a deterministic variation of a usual event-driven program”
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posted November 30, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“from all the popular compiled languages, C++ tends to produce the binary code which is the most difficult-to-reverse-engineer (that is, provided that you have turned all the optimizations on, disabled debug info, and are not using DLLs)”
Another Quote:	“Bot fighting is always a two-way battle with bot writers inventing a way around the MMO defences, and then MMO developers striking back with a new defence against the most recent attack; rinse and repeat.”
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posted November 23, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Making 3D work is not easy to start with, but making it look good is a major challenge.”
Another Quote:	“In such cases of dual visual interfaces, it is paramount to have Logic-to-Graphics layer as described above”
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