amara freemanMay 12, 2023
I'm gonna need to make a web server backend software thing for distributing files related to playtesting. How, uhh, do people make server software nowadays? Asp.net? Rust? I've never felt so out of my depth before. Turns out there's a lot involved with making a web backend... 
Show threadtichoMay 12, 2023
@amara Just out of curiosity - what is that you're doing if you can't use some existing lightweight solution (like nginx, or even python's http.server), and have to roll your own?
Show threadamara freeman
@ticho These are mostly just for serving static files, right? I don't know much about web dev, so correct me if I'm wrong. What I need requires several people (10-20 people) uploading and downloading things like log and gameplay files through a game.
May 12, 2023 at 12:35pmWeb
Show threadtichoMay 12, 2023
@amara That's still just static content - or do you need the webserver to generate pages - or other files - on the fly, as the requests come in?
Show threadamara freemanMay 12, 2023
@ticho Hmm... I suppose not! I didn't think of using something like that. I'll look into it, thanks.