A coupple of years ago we had the same problem. We started
seeing "oregano"
and "Flash communication server". After a lot of
reading we decided to adopt
XMPP protocol (Jabber). There are several open source great
alternatives,
that supports up to 30K concurrent users on a single server.
The protocol is
an open standard. There are a coupple of libs around for
both Shockwave and
Flash. And as far as I see, A.S. 3 will suport it natively.
So I think is
path you should take.
HTH
L.
-----Mensaje original-----
De: dirgames-l-bounces nuttybar.drama.uga.edu
[mailto:dirgames-l-bouncesnuttybar.drama.uga.edu]En
nombre de Chris
Evans
Enviado el: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 7:22 AM
Para: Director - Shockwave - and Flash Game Production
Asunto: Re: [dirGames-L] Smart Fox Server vs Flash Media
Server
After reading through the docs and I must agree with Troy,
it looks slick!
The admin page shows server load, data traffic, memory
usage, dropped
messages, among other things. But I'm most impressed with
the extensions.
You can choose between ActionScript, Python, or Java for
server-side
scripting. That gives good flexibility. For a relatively
simple server
operation you could code it quickly in ActionScript. Then
for more complex
operations you can use Java to boost/optimize performance.
According to the docs, you can add/start/stop extensions
without restarting
the server. This is a definite advantage over Nebulae.
Switching to Smart Fox would require code rewrites though.
Smart Fox uses
the Flash Server protocol, not MUS, and they're not
compatible. I'll admit
I'm not eager to do this. However, realistically MUS is even
more dead than
SW3D. It's pretty solid all things considered, but it's not
going to get any
improvements. Even Nebulae mostly gets bug fixes these days,
not new
features.
So who knows maybe it's a good idea to switch now to Flash
servers since
that's where everything is these days and it will continue
to get new
features. Macromedia stopped supporting MUS, what 4-5 years
ago? I need to
stop using dead platforms...
- Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hipolito Troy" <troyhipolitoyahoo.com>
To: "Director - Shockwave - and Flash Game
Production"
<dirgames-lnuttybar.drama.uga.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:27 PM
Subject: [dirGames-L] Smart Fox Server vs Flash Media
Server
Hey did any one take a look at the Smart Fox Server?
Saw a link on http://www.shocksites.com . We purchased it and man O man!
It is awesome. The full version for free, with 20
connections. So we
purchased the 100 connections license. It is much easier
then the shockwave
multi-user server was (and more stable).
We are going to port the http://www.chamberofchat
.com from MUS to
SmartFoxServer over the next few weeks.
We installed it with little issues. It has build in
features that we
have to manually build in our chat world.
It has built in items like auto service creation(for
hosting), curse
filter, room grouping, banning members, native database
connectivity,
security, logs, max members, and even the ability to create
your own
extensions for it!
Sweeeeeet!
The interface is sooo slick. And it all works well.
"Smart Fox Server" is much better then that
expensive "Flash Media
Server"!
It does not do video streaming but it does multi
user!!!! All day long!
http://www.smartfoxserver.com/products/images/admin01.j
pg
http://www.smartfoxserver.com/products/images/admin02.j
pg
http://www.smartfoxserver.com/products/images/admin03.j
pg
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