I've compared it (the PHP version) to code that I've got in use and you're not missing anything that I can see. I'm using cURL with a follow option rather than file_get_contents... maybe there's a redirect in there somewhere?
EDIT: longest 'contained' track, not longest of all tracks
The longest track since Westerweiterung2 - adding more than a mile and increasing the already high average speed by another 5%, while fixing many problems with the flow.
The horrific concrete of Westerweiterung2 has been replaced by only-slightly-iffy concrete. It's survivable, if not exactly pleasant, at its worst. The finish line and direction at start are standard WE1. Images attached.
I mostly use my insim logs for checking things out, but I've used the virtual console a few times. I can't remember what for exactly (sorry!).
3 days worth of log is good enough for me, chunking it into days is no problem.
I was wondering about replay storage also, just because we have many months' worth but I only really need the same few days, maybe a week to be safe. At the moment it's just on/off, but if there were a shorter option I'd pick it. Maybe it's not so big a deal on servers without a 24/7 lurker
It is an archive, it's just an exe because it's a self-extracting one. If you right-click on it in windows explorer, one of the '7zip' options is 'open archive' which will treat the exe file as if it's just a regular windows folder, and you can copy files out of it from there.