WinMX Pie Looks like its crawling home to WinMX Group.

[Josh]

If you haven't looked lately WinMX group is down to 3 cache servers.
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| www.diagemshosting.net  |
| germany.winmxgroup.com |
| ireland.winmxgroup.com    |
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If you download the manual install for the pie patch from the mxpie website and look though it you will see that it only has one peer cache of its own that we dont know who it belongs to. The rest of them are ours.

82.43.224.20 is the only one that is not on the winmx group list. Sabre's has one but all his ip is set for is the winmx.com redirection.

How much longer until they completely use winmxgroup's cache servers? When and if it happens why even have their side. They arent doing anything but using our servers.

And if we were to take ours offline they would be stuck with that 82.43.224.20 which is a cable connection

[TheMacDaddy]

I have just looked at the cache satus and i see only 3 servers online???
Is pie going off?
Whats going on is it just winmxgroup holding winmx up now or what?
And if it is i am sure the one question everyone is going to ask is can winmx still be stable with just these 3 servers?(i guess i know the answer will be yes) but i asked b4 anyone else      lol

[Josh]

All 3 servers are ran on top level quality servers. With a super fast connection. I doubt that they will have any trouble handling the load of the users even if pie were to drop its one and only cache server.

[KM]

can only 3 servers handle it? you forget that one of those servers actually did handle the entire load all on its own for a week or so

the requests don't cause much load on the server, the only reason for more than one is redundancy, because of course there must always be at least one online or you can't connect (winmx is very tolerant of failure and you would hardly notice if it took 3 or 4 tries to find a working peer cache - as long as there is one online), the only real requirement for peer caches is that they are online 24/7 with a reasonably static IP (although of course the winmxgroup patch can handle IP changes, it's still better to have a static IP for hosting anything), there wouldn't be any problem hosting one from a dialup connection if it had a static IP and stayed online 24/7... although why anyone would even have a dialup connection on 24/7 i couldn't explain

of course using a dial up connection would make the peer cache very easy to, erm, "knock offline" if someone wanted to do so... and that's the only real reason for needing a decent speed connection to absorb any possible "accidental flooding of large volumes of data"