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The main SteamID site is hosted on its own dedicated server. This is hosted with OVH, There are a number of other servers in different locations. Main Dedicated i7 , 64gb ram , 3 x 480GB SSD's. The main off site host for SteamID related machines has 2 xeons giving 24 threads and 96 GB of ram with an ever changing disk array The Spare server for when load is high has 2 xeons giving 24 threads with 48GB of ram with its own disk array The backup Host has 32gb of ram , 16 threads with its own disk array The other servers are similar specs but not really used and remain powered off.
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I'm afraid Persona history cannot be removed, however if you have used a bad persona in the past SteamID may allow you to blank this Here
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SteamID pulls information from public sources, If the account is removed the website will automaticly pull all information back though. If you profile is made private, SteamID will still display public information such as some name changes and avatar history (Which is still obtainable from steam anyway) Privacy
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The image URL for the image on steam servers is stored. As SteamID is secured over SSL the images are pulled though and passed though. The image link while may look like SteamID hosts the image, This is just proxied though from the steam servers. If the image has been removed from the steam servers then a 404 icon may apear in the history but as the imageURL maybe relevant its kept
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This means how many friends that user has vac, Trade & Community banned
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When a search is carried out for a player name, the search request is sent to another SteamID server and bounces back - Sometimes this server can be overloaded or the network connection is down
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SteamID relys on adverts to help pay for the server costs of running this free service. If you see an adblock message then the code for the site must be altered in some way in your browser.
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SteamID calculates scores for public profiles, based on:
Vac, Trade , Community Game ban Status
Current Friends who have bans
historic friends who have Bans
Current friends who are SteamRep Banned
Profile Level
Account age