How to use FastDL

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You must add all files such as skins, maps and so on to FastDL for faster downloads. You will receive your FastDL FTP login information once you have been promoted to a position that requires it such as a server manager, this is not the same as ftp login to the game server where you configure the server files. Do not upload any archived FastDL files to the game server. Before you can upload any files to FastDL, you must first archive it properly. You will require 7-zip program for this which you can download over here.

For this example we will be uploading a CS:GO map called am_onroof.bsp to the FastDL. Right click on a file, hover over 7-zip, then select "Add to archive" which will open a the 7-zip archive manager.

Once the new window pop-ups with compression options, change archive format to bzip2 and then click OK which will then archive the map file. 

We then should have a file called am_onroof_bsp.bz2 which is the bzip2 archive of our map file that we will upload to the FastDL. We will connect to the FastDL using FTP client and navigate to the corresponding folder, for example as we are using a map file for CS:GO it's location is csgo/maps/ where we will upload the map file archive.

Now we are done and the file is successfully on the FastDL server which in return can now be used on our game server.

FastDL is a server that is separate from the game server itself, it's whole job is to distribute files whenever people connect to the game server for faster download speeds such as downloading maps, skins, effects and so on.