Questions tagged [server]
It refers to client-server model, where providers of a resource or service is called Server.
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Multithreaded Game Server: Single send() or Many send()s for Game List?
I'm developing a multithreaded game server (C/TCP). I need to send a list of 50-100 available games to a console client.
Option A: Send 50-100 separate messages, using send() for every single ...
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Where to initialize clients in C server?
I’m writing a multiplayer server in C using sockets and pthreads.
The project is separated by responsibility:
server.c/.h → networking (socket, bind, listen, accept, thread creation)
player.c/.h → ...
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Why do database protocols use fixed endianness instead of native server endianness?
Most database wire protocols mandate a specific byte order for multi-byte integers:
PostgreSQL: big-endian (network byte order)
MySQL: little-endian
MongoDB: little-endian (BSON format)
OracleDB: ...
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How to implement a server application that can reload configuration without restart
I have a game server implemented in Python to which clients can connect and play against each other.
I'd like to be able to reload configuration from a config file without restarting the server (as ...
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Architecture for downloading large number of large images
I am running a website for a customer who has terrabytes worth of images. Each JPG image is high-res (20MB) and belongs to a hierarchy like this:
Group A
SubGroup 1
subsubgroup a
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Is there any way to have an android or iOS app expose a web-api?
I want to develop a miminal app for iOS and Android.
Basically, I want to have a widget (or similar micro-app) that displays how many items I have in a list. If I open the widget, it just opens a ...
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How can I simplify deploying game server on hosting
I'm an online game developer.
I've written my game server using c++ on visual studio on windows 10 OS.
My hosting machine is run on CentOS 8.
Every time I make a change on server, I transfer all the ...
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bare-metal server vs cloud server vs on-prem server?
I am trying to understand the difference between bare-metal servers and cloud servers. I am referring to the following document,blog.
I understand that Amazon EC2(which is all the rage) is an example ...
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Backend VPS requirement estimate
I have an idea for a mobile app, but As I'm not from a Software background, I need to know how much the backend operations will cost before I commit time and resources to develop this idea. In this ...
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What really is a "web server" in relation to popular frameworks like Flask, Node.js, Apache?
In Flask you can run a "webserver". Well really it's a "WSGI Server". Well really you shouldn't be using core server features like serving files through HTTP at all, you should be ...
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Are there downsides of two TCP connections for bidirectional communication?
I have a server which maintains some shares state.
The clients can send some requests and get an answer from the server.
Sometimes the server needs to give some information to the client ...
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frontend server obtain data from backend server, or frontend server return page with javascript that obtain data from backend server?
I'm currently learning how to separate frontend server and backend server. However, i'm not sure which approach should i take between the two
Frontend server obtain data from backend server and ...
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How to represent the absent of a field value in json response?
I am a react developer and writing the client on pure JS. I have sometimes missions to received data from server and send data to server. Now between the client team and backend rough discussion ...
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Enabling file editing on a file stored on a server through custom routes and POST/GET Requests
I am creating a platform which allows multiple users to edit a file simultaneously and I was wondering if using a web server with routes could be the correct architecture for this goal. I am trying to ...
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Handling IO operations through a server and building the UI using a separate framework/application
I am trying to build a file editor, and I wanted to build the UI using Flutter. However I wanted to implement IO operations (reading a file, applying changes, etc) in Rust.
The reason I would like to ...
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