I’d like to have the ability to update news on my games main menu, the only method I can think of for this is to have a text document on my website and use WWW.text to get the content from my website at game launch.
I wouldn’t want the app to do this every launch so I could do it once a week or something, but I’m worried about how 16,000 or so requests for that text document on my site will affect bandwidth and things like that.
What’s your thought? Are there any other solutions I should be looking at?
Well, unless you’re with a particularly awful web provider, 16,000 requests for a text document per day should be a relatively trivial affair. That being said, when we pushed Al Lowe’s Comedy Club out, we had 500,000 requests per day to receive the score update and it broke everything. In the end, I was forced to make the dynamic scoring non-dynamic and literally serve out a text file.
It’s worth a call to your hosting company to ask, and when in doubt, ‘do less’ (less scripting, less dynamic, less database work on the server end).
