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You mostly likely need a WAL Mode SQLite database.

Overkill, If you are writing to the text file only to increment a number of visitors, none of what you mentioned above is even required.

Create a "counter-hit" file for each visitor, count the number of files in the resources directory. Populate the master file with the file count and delete all the temporary files. Configure it on a crontab for say every three seconds.

Online now was even easier. IFrame refresh within the homepage. Upon refresh, populate the file with something like "online=true". Read the file every X, if the file modifcation hasn't been refreshed within 30 seconds, nerf the text file and mark that user as offline. psuedo-dynamic, but times were different then. I coded these in perl back in the day for my RTCW clan and how I miss it much.

Being a webmaster was art, an art that's now lost..

64 Player Depot. I always had a fondness for Tram. Played CAL Main. Good times. v43

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