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Originally Posted by detc
Running a web server off your home connection is inadvisable for a lot of reasons, namely security, anonymity and protection from your ISP (which will take note of the huge jump in traffic over port 80/443 and either tell you to knock it off or try to force you into a business internet plan). You can find a lot of options for a managed VPS for <$10 a month with a Google search, trying to DIY it opens you to a lot of annoyance and potential harm.
E: To answer the actual question, FTP and HTTP/S are protocols used by various technologies to communicate. They operate very differently and even though both can be accessed via URL it doesn't mean the underlying ways they communicate are compatible with one another. As far as running a FastDL is concerned, you'd use FTP to upload the maps you want to a folder that the HTTP server can see and then put the http:// address in the sv_downloadurl. When clients connect, they're pointed to that HTTP address and their client fetches the required maps/models/materials/whatever.
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Thank you for the answer it helped me a lot. Although I'm still confused to what a Web server is? Is Apache a web server? is it basically what a normie like me would call a website? that starts with HTTP/s? I have however made a website with apache but do I just upload my files onto there? Rather how do I go about combining FTP with HTTP? If I wanted to connect to the FTP server via FileZilla, I would normally type "FTP://ip" or just the IP, how do I get these FTP files combined with the http. This probably sounds really dumb but I'm so confused haha. Thanks