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Also known as: main server
The account a downloader tries first, set at the highest priority and normally the unlimited subscription with the best retention and connection count. Nearly all traffic runs through it, so its completion rate determines how often the backup is touched. Client software falls through to lower-priority servers only after the primary returns a missing-article response for a segment.
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