Using photon as a master server only?
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Would it be possible to use photon only as a master server that stores server list and info, but leave the actual server stuff to an unrelated server software?
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You could do that, but I don't see that making any sense as a simple PHP + MySQL / Flatfile DB could do that too if game listing is all you need (and if you need more, neither of the two is an option)0
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Why not? Well I want to manage not only the servers, but also stats and stuff, like in cod but serverside.dreamora wrote:You could do that, but I don't see that making any sense as a simple PHP + MySQL / Flatfile DB could do that too if game listing is all you need (and if you need more, neither of the two is an option)
Seeing as photon can manage mmos, I don't see why it wouldn't be good for this job?0 -
It can do a good job in that.
But its a total overkill as a webservice can do it too and its much simpler to maintain (you fire up a new webserver instance, done) and you will find significantly more PHP / Python / ASP.NET programmers than photon programmers to develop and maintain your backend.
I'm a fan of Photon, but in this case where you really only make Photon do the job of a dumb webservice, I wouldn't even consider to use it.
If you used the photon node also for chat and lobby for games in prep but not started yet, yeah then we talk about a reason to use it, or generally the moment something "more realtime than sending RESTful requests" is required
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