Does anyone out there know what can be done about photos? I don't really use videos on my site, but thats only because I can't seem to find a video player that will actually work and not say 'unrecognised video' with elgg 1.8.8. I am pretty sure my bandwith is getting eaten up quickly because of the images and alot of traffic, and I am using TidyPics Photo Gallery, but is there any chance a plugin out there that will allow images to be hosted elsewhere or something? 8Gigs of bandwith was used today on the cloud server, I believe I have upto 300Gigs for the month total and im not too worried about this month, but what would you recommend to help reduce the bandwith for my site so I don't run into big problems down the road? Is there a tool or plugin that will reduce the image size or convert it automatically after the user has uploaded it? I know I can reduce the allowed size which will help im sure but there has to be an even better way to help reduce bandwith with photos?
Thanks for your help,
Kim
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You must log in to post replies.look at this post, it can help you : http://community.elgg.org/pages/view/614701/boost-htaccess
if you are using tidypic there is an option to limit the image size uploaded... set to 1MB or less.
Tell your users to resize the photos using any software like fotoreziser...
use cpanel's optimize site option.
enadri - I see the .htaccess file but its alittle scarey replacing mine with an unknown.
satheesh - I noticed the settings to reduce upload size, but isn't there a way to get elgg to reduce them automatically somehow? maybe not but it would be cool if a plugin was made to optimize photos/videos and such...
@enadri - that post was last updated over 600 days ago. I can guarantee it will break a 1.8 installation, and I wouldn't trust it for the latest 1.7 either.
@itskim - for most applications including the file plugin and tidypics elgg creates small thumbnails from the original and serves those when appropriate.
You can change those sizes if you want - see: http://community.elgg.org/discussion/view/844550/change-size-of-topbar-icon
You can save some bandwidth by enabling gzip or mod_defalte in your servers. Most of the modern browsers can serve compressed files. Also use a tool like minify to compress the css and js. Compress all the images (the static one you are using in your themes using a tool like smushit or pngout win.