We host our Magento store internally with a not so amazing Internet connection. It's good enough to process the shop, but images take a while to upload to the visitor.
So what we have done is tweak the image.php file in app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model to point the images to a public space on RackSpace.
It's not an ideal method though with the admin console complaining that images don't exist and other random mess ups.
So I was wondering if anyone has implemented such a solution which I can use for our shop?
I imagine it will need to ignore the cache check as it cant upload to rackspace.
You can use the option of the backend of Magento
And redirect the trafic of images to another server(CDN).
There is one more solution, for example the module of one pica CDN with the option to select many CDN( amazon, custom cdn, etc)
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/onepica-imagecdn.html
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Next.js documentation says:
"Only assets that are in the public directory at build time will be served by Next.js. Files added at runtime won't be available. We recommend using a third party service like AWS S3 for persistent file storage."
I have issue to understand how would you work with a site with dynamic content. I mean, let say i operate a merchant site, do i have to rebuild the site each time i add a product? or must i use a cdn for my images.
Sounds it should have a more easy way no?
I am working on a ecommerce site built on the top of Nop Commerce 2.3. We want to use CDN for loading all static contents including its images, but not sure how to do this with NopCommerce.
Nopcommerce is set to save binary of images in db at the time of inserting product, and then it generates thumb or re-sized / optimized images at the run time as and when required and stored them in the content folder of the same application for retrieving on page during load time.
Now, suppose on some page, lets say, Home Page, we have 70 product images. I want to distribute it across four host name, so each host name will serve 17/18 images.
This is definitely to save some time in image loading.
Now the Question is:
How to do it in best way in NopCommerce?
The challenges are:
Changing in nop commerce code to load images from CDN instead of its application\content folder. This is not an issue and is fine to manage.
To implement this correctly we might need some mechanism that checks for image on CDN if it doesn't exist, then we might need to transfer the image from content folder to appropriate folder at CDN maybe ? (suggest), and if it doesn't exist in content folder, then need to generate suitable image first and then transfer it.
I'm concerned about this 2nd challenge, and wants to understand the best approach to do this. Moreover, how to do this... specifically check if image exists in CDN or not?
Not very much sure, how to do this? And is it okay or do you suggest something else?
If you use the OVH CDN, you simply point your dns to the CDN dns, add the static file's extensions to the CDN configuration, and let it work for you. All other extensions will pass through. No code to change.
On my new site, I display around 50-60 thumbnails per page using my one of the plugin.
About plugin:
For every requested post id, it
extracts content for the post from
DB and find out the image url.
It generates thumbnail for found
image URL.
I wanted to minimize number of hits to the server in generating the thumbnail. If server is cache enabled then it can reduce many of the hits. But i was willing to separate the 2nd part from the plugin and to host it on any other server/CDN where i/other can request to generate thumbnail without any charges.
I tried free webhosting provider. but i felt they are generally slow/down maximum of time.
Please suggest the approach or CDN, if any...
Or any online image api which can resize/zoom/crop/edit an image, if i pass the image url.
It will be very hard (almost impossible) to find a reliable server/CDN that will generate thumbnails of images for free.
TANSTAAFL
Assuming your plugin uses several standard wordpress function, you might be able to use another plugin which takes the generated thumbnails and uploads them to another server. I recommend W3 Total Cache.
You could also try CoralCDN to take some load off your server.
So: You can use CoralCDN (or similar) and just point the URLs of your thumbnails through it, or you can have a caching plugin like W3TC upload the files to an almost-free site like Amazon S3.
I have a client who wants to build a huge Image gallery website, and I am confused about how to structure the website for future Storage expansion.
Let me explain more...
Let us say that each user will upload his images to
website.com/Uploads/User/Images
Now creating the upload logic and displaying the images is not my issue here, my real problem is that say I have 200 GB hard Disk and if i have 20000 Customer where each client uploads 10 MB max, now as you see I will run out of space.
So how do I handle expansion in future without changing structure of web site, meaning that users will always upload to the same Path I have mentioned above, so obviously my front-end views will fetch images from same location too.
It may be stupid but I am lost on this. I mean, how guys like Facebook or other big sites do that ?
You can try using a cloud cdn(content delivery network), which will be dynamically expandable. amazon/rackspace, they are well known for this kind of service.
Ok after Tedious Searching, i have found the answer, basically it boils down to two Methods,
One Called Push, where you have to store the Files on the CDN Server by FTP, Api, etc...
The other called Pull Origin, where you dont have to change anything, you just Configure Your CDN to Fetch the Resources from your Servers, of course you have to Store files on Original Server First.
there is a lot more to it, but if anyone had my same wondering , just make Search about CDN Push or Pull in Google
I have moved all images from a website to a content delivery network on another domain. And, as a result, lost all Google image search traffic. Is damage permanent or will traffic return, will images on another domain still allow my site to be in image search results? Maybe I should have moved images gradually? Any advise?
It's gone because Google can now no longer find the images it had previously spidered, google will of course find the new locations however there is no guarantee it will rank your images the same as before.
The best way to recover is to implement 301 redirects using your .htaccess file. Depending on how you've moved the images and if they are in the same or a different folder structure it may require a bit of work to fix.