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The main Steamid is hosted on its own dedicated server. This is hosted with OVH. The original SSD VPS solution was far too slow for what I wanted. Specs are: i7 , 64gb ram , 3 x 480GB SSD's. There is a bunch of lower spec servers and VPS servers that help run SteamID
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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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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.