Obviously, all owners cannot pay a lot for hosting - but the solution is using outside companies (which host images) to do the work. However, though, it makes image posting a bit harder. Nonetheless, the solution is simply getting a mod which automatically sends images to the third party.
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Obviously, all owners cannot pay a lot for hosting - but the solution is using outside companies (which host images) to do the work. However, though, it makes image posting a bit harder. Nonetheless, the solution is simply getting a mod which automatically sends images to the third party.
Compression is one trick. There are tools for crushing down jpegs, pngs, etc. plus Google has come out with a new algorithm called Brotli which can compress content far better than Gzip can hope to, especially when you run it at the maximum settings (for resources you serve over and over).
Ultimately though, you might want to get some sort of CDN to avoid hitting your origin server so much and they can usually optimise the resources a lot better than you can.
Ultimately though, you might want to get some sort of CDN to avoid hitting your origin server so much and they can usually optimise the resources a lot better than you can.
Images can be hard! I mean if you have the control of the images! Your own image then you can compress the size and whatnot. But if you have an gallery page it's not easy! you can not say to your members! hay upload this size only lol
but you still can compress the image on the server once the image are uploaded my your members
but you still can compress the image on the server once the image are uploaded my your members
There was a forum that uses that before. What was posted was just the link of the image that is located in another website that is a depository like the Yahoo Images (am I right on the name?). Anyway, the problem is when the internet access is slow, the image is not displayed and only the link can be seen. On the first time I saw the links, I was really confused and I even thought that my computer was hit by a virus.
I'm thinking a forum could be designed (using mods and commands from the admin area) to where images could only be posted in a certain way - saving bandwidth
I do say upload this size only. I'm going to have a 1MB cap to stop people throwing 4K images in there, and then, I'll throw it through the crusher. CRUNCH.
My worry is not so much bandwidth but mobile, mobile's a huge pain to deal with. Pages load far slower than on desktop. It's worth tossing some CPU power at it. But yes, a gallery or image board of sorts would consume a vast amount of bandwidth.
You can save a lot of bandwidth by compressing, crunching, or resizing the image (e.g. for thumbnails or mobile viewports).
My worry is not so much bandwidth but mobile, mobile's a huge pain to deal with. Pages load far slower than on desktop. It's worth tossing some CPU power at it. But yes, a gallery or image board of sorts would consume a vast amount of bandwidth.
You can save a lot of bandwidth by compressing, crunching, or resizing the image (e.g. for thumbnails or mobile viewports).
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