Posted by crosenblum on June 17, 2008 at 5:15pm
Yes, i read and have Steve Souder's book on High Performance.
One of the ideas, I learned from there, is to upload all my images to www.imageshack.us, which is free, then in my code, refer to the new urls.
Now I have also learned they have an api, which i have just started to play with.
Why not have a few of us create a module, that checks for local images being used in db/blocks/css etc, then uploads them to imageshack, and then grabs the new imageshack url, then put that url in all references to old images.
For more info on XML Api go http://reg.imageshack.us/content.php?page=developer
The main benefit, is that it is a tad complex to do, however, imageshack.us is currently free.
Any thoughts?
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Interesting idea but im not
Interesting idea but im not sure it would be all that beneficial. I am sure imageshack is relatively slow in comparison with even the low-end CDN providers. Secondly imageshack is simply not a CDN, wither or not they in turn serve their files from a CDN im not sure but either way I would think paying the whole 20$ a month for a low-end provider would be a better way to go.
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Tj Holowaychuk
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Victoria British Columbia Web Design School
I'm pretty sure ImageShack
I'm pretty sure ImageShack caps the bandwidth for free uploads -- after that users get images that say "bandwidth exceeded, try again later or upgrade to premium." I don't think I'd trust my site with them.
Perhaps so..
It depends if your a higher traffic site or not.
If your not you probably
If your not you probably dont need to use a CDN :p
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Tj Holowaychuk
Vision Media - Victoria BC Web Design
Victoria British Columbia Web Design School
well...
We can always use ways to improve scalability. Maybe to help prepare for when we are higher traffic.
Alternative CDN Ideas
Take a look at SimpleCDN... not free, but by far the lowest-cost CDN out there, with both a pay-per-use and pay-per-file pricing model.
The benefit to a CDN is distributed delivery, which improves the loading time and user experience of your site, while removeing the majority of the bandwidth load. Even a very popular site can be hosted on a single server with a 10Mbps connection, if all of the media, videos, etc. are coming from a CDN.
Sure its not free... but worth a look :-). MirrorCDN, our new pay-per-use service will automatically mirror your content from your server... so setup time is about 10 seconds, and you can be rocking and rolling... at $0.07 per GB it is less than Amazon S3.
We're a new company, developing CDN services "for the rest of us". I would be interested to know your take and feedback on our pricing and service offerings.
I have also used SimpleCDN
I have also used SimpleCDN for some of our projects, was pretty happy with the pay per file model, but for our larger sites I prefer to just pay a monthly fee since files are being transfered constantly
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Tj Holowaychuk
Vision Media - Victoria BC Web Design
Victoria British Columbia Web Design School