Off-load image thumbnail creation
Hi all,
Even cheap modern digital cameras can take pictures up to 12MP. So there comes the problem:
A user will upload many large images that will have to be cropped and scaled down twice or more times to create thumbnails, resulting in high server load and memory usage.
Is there any way available or suggestions to offload image thumbnail creation to another machine in order to save critical resources?
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Drupal7 only. I was just thinking about the following. A lot of people want to restrict access to thei high resolution images so they chose private but the also show small thumbnails to the public.
If you chose private all thumbnails will be private to causing bootstrap-galore on for example, gallery pages with 30 thumbs.
So the idea was to somehow create an image style that can be applied to save a chose preset (for example thumbnails) in private while saving the rest of the full resolution presets in private.
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Hi all, by way of intro I have been sitting on the side of this group for a month or two now watching for some events to attend to build my knowledge of Drupal. I am a long time web developer and web manager in Brisbane (currently working in a customer experience management role) and have only recently discovered Drupal, but I think it's very exciting as a platform for building complex sites.
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