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I recently bought a server from 'PingPerfect' so me and my friend could play online. The server is up and running and we can both play no problem.

The issue we are having is whenever anything is placed on the ground like a furnace, chest, conveyor, etc, the server/game will do what seems to be an autosave that pauses the game for about 5-10 seconds on a black screen (this is as well as the normal autosave function that saves about every 2 minutes), then we can continue playing. This is literally every time anything is placed and is almost unplayable like this.

It seems like the server is updating itself whenever a change is made to the map like placing a building.

My question is, is this normal? Should it be making a save every time something is placed on the ground? Is there a way to disable this so we can place lots of items without it saving every 2 seconds?

Another separate question: Before we bought a server, my friend hosted a server on his computer and we started making a map on that. Is there a way I can load that map onto our new server?

Any help would be much appreciated as I am a total noob at anything to do with server hosting stuff.

Thank You,
Flinch

0 mods, brand spanking new world
client and server both 12.24
although client is from steam, server is downloaded from website
Commandline = Factorio.exe --start-server Pingperfect.zip --autosave-interval 5 --autosave-slots 10 --latency-ms 200

Whenever anyone goes to place any item it re-downloads the map. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

I've merged the two topics above as they are about the same problem.
Problem: When hosting a server at PingPerfect.com the game always desyncs/makes a save? when placing down an entity/building.

No, this behavior is definitely not normal and doesn't occur on any other server I know of.
In your case I recommend you write to support@pingperfect.com and tell them about the problem, as it most likely is a misconfiguration on their side.