21.01.2013, 13:05
MySQL is the way to go with anything bigger than ~2000 registered users. It makes administrating a hundred times easier and I'm not even exaggerating. Experienced it myself when my server moved to use MySQL a bit over a year ago with about 10 000 registered users. The FTP was taking a very long time to load all the files and in MySQL I can only list those I needed in the first place.
I don't even want to think of administrating a server using flatfiles to save players..
I don't even want to think of administrating a server using flatfiles to save players..