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« on: April 19, 2008, 08:13:00 AM » |
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Hi LP Staff  I planned to build some image board + forums. for some web hosting service they have a maximum limit in total size of multimedia files (for ex. total size of all multimedia file not more than 5% of disk usage). What about here in LP ? do you have this limitation ? thanks  |
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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2008, 09:51:04 PM » |
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Hello. These boards are for users to help other users and not for official support but sometimes our staff do hang out here when we can. We have no limitation on total size of multimedia files. However, all files must be used for your site here and not just stored.
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« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2008, 08:21:36 AM » |
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Hello. These boards are for users to help other users and not for official support but sometimes our staff do hang out here when we can. We have no limitation on total size of multimedia files. However, all files must be used for your site here and not just stored.
What if I build a online-gallery site which contain 25000+ image files (and 5-10 MB/file). Is it ok for my case ? Thanks  P.S. I love this board's smile faces    <--- Other users ^ ^ | | users LP's staff  |
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katrina1
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« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2008, 09:00:19 AM » |
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ROTFL  take that. Tee hee. You can but who would want to download that large a file to look at it and you would likely either run out of bandwidth if it got too popular (though it would take a while with all we offer) or you might cause issues with the server resources if if got real popular or Digged. If you are talking about ahem "adult" files, please be advised that we don't allow adult TGP or free adult image galleries. http://www.lunarpages.com/aup.php |
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MrPhil
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« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2008, 09:05:29 AM » |
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As Katrina said, these files must be directly related to the purpose of your site and not just personal storage. You say they're 5 to 10MB each? Are you going to display them (or download them) at full size? If not, consider resizing them to an appropriate size for display -- that could save a lot of storage space and bandwidth. Don't rely on width= and height= attributes to resize on the fly.
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« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2008, 10:12:34 AM » |
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As Katrina said, these files must be directly related to the purpose of your site and not just personal storage. You say they're 5 to 10MB each? Are you going to display them (or download them) at full size? If not, consider resizing them to an appropriate size for display -- that could save a lot of storage space and bandwidth. Don't rely on width= and height= attributes to resize on the fly.
My site is a papercraft-origami community. Now there are so many many files stored in my hard disk (150 GB+). I'm using Gallery2 module so its automatically create thumbnails pages, then I don't much worry about bandwidth (for now)    |
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MrPhil
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« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2008, 12:31:27 PM » |
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My site is a papercraft-origami community. Now there are so many many files stored in my hard disk (150 GB+). I'm using Gallery2 module so its automatically create thumbnails pages, then I don't much worry about bandwidth (for now)
If a thumbnail is created only once for an image, and saved, that should be OK. On the other hand, if it's creating a thumbnail on-the-fly each time a page is accessed, that could become a CPU load problem. Do you know which Gallery2 is doing? |
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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2008, 05:13:11 PM » |
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My site is a papercraft-origami community. Now there are so many many files stored in my hard disk (150 GB+). I'm using Gallery2 module so its automatically create thumbnails pages, then I don't much worry about bandwidth (for now)
If a thumbnail is created only once for an image, and saved, that should be OK. On the other hand, if it's creating a thumbnail on-the-fly each time a page is accessed, that could become a CPU load problem. Do you know which Gallery2 is doing? G2 create thumbnail and stored in MySQL database. Is this will cause any problem ? |
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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2008, 05:45:59 PM » |
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On a shared server, it's recommended that MySQL databases not exceed 500 to 600 MB each (you can have multiple databases, up to your total 1500GB space). If G2 is actually storing your thumbnails in a database (rather than just location information, with a separate file for the image), you'll probably run out of database space pretty quickly. Putting the image itself in a database is rather dumb, but I've heard of it supposedly being done (and don't forget the extra CPU load of extracting the data and building an image file for the browser's use). On the other hand, textual database information (location of image file, title, caption, copyright information, size, ...) is ideal for a database because it's something that can be searched for.
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« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2008, 07:32:34 PM » |
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On a shared server, it's recommended that MySQL databases not exceed 500 to 600 MB each (you can have multiple databases, up to your total 1500GB space). If G2 is actually storing your thumbnails in a database (rather than just location information, with a separate file for the image), you'll probably run out of database space pretty quickly. Putting the image itself in a database is rather dumb, but I've heard of it supposedly being done (and don't forget the extra CPU load of extracting the data and building an image file for the browser's use). On the other hand, textual database information (location of image file, title, caption, copyright information, size, ...) is ideal for a database because it's something that can be searched for.
Sorry my fault!! http://gallery.menalto.com/node/55253 G2 stored thumbnail in *.dat files so, do you think in this case it may cause any problem ? thanks again ! |
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« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2008, 04:08:12 PM » |
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If they're storing the images in their own files, that sounds like it should be OK. I don't know why they would be .dat files rather than .jpg or something, but who knows what's going on?
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