Important information about images! (Page 7/8)
Gridlock SEP 20, 08:27 PM
I'm seeing mention of the hooters pictures here, and to be fair, Roger doesn't post ANY pictures on the fiero server since Cliff asked him not too. All his pictures are hosted off-site.
Smoooooth GT SEP 20, 10:49 PM
Cliff I understand and I am grateful to be here even with no picture's...
Maybe this will keep people from asking for pic's of my Fiero... Just kidding Picture's of the final body design within 3 week's!!

Steve
SmoothGT!

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SplineZ SEP 21, 02:10 AM
Pictures that are displayed on the same page twice are only downloaded once.

I do not believe cliff has a problem with animated sigs, as long as they have a small file size.

Cliff does not HOST any animated smilies, so any that are on here are linked from another site. The only bandwidth used is the text used to link to the image.

Geocities accounts will work for a very limited time, they are transfer limited and will error when you go past the limit.

To resize thumbnails automaticaly, I posted somethign about that earlier. PHPix does it automaticaly, and you just link to the thumnail or to the smaller picture.

Cliff is using a module for apache called "mod_gzip", this compresses the webpages being sent out so that TEXT loads much much quicker. Simply because text is highly compressable. I do know that newer forum software carries this feature aswell.

dial up users will never see a massive increase in speed.. i mean.. C'mon you are on dialup 5.6kB/sec if all the planets are aligned, and if its a full moon. Do not have high expectations for a technology which is over 35 years old... computer years too!

pictures of hooter girls are linked remotely from another site, besides if you dont like it dont look at it?

Avitars are moving a problem from one place to another..

Loss of the PFF CD would be not good, but how about instead of having all of the drivel archived, just the pertanent stuff? I havent seen one of these CDs yet so i dont know if this is what is done or not..

And about imagestation. I have read their "Members Agreement" and i dont see anything in there forbiding remote linking. As long as it doesnt violate IP, or copywritten information, they could care less. the word "link" isnt even in their agreement.

Only allowing "contributing members" to post pictures would cut the ammount of people that post pictures in an 1/8th, and would reduce the useability of the site by doing so. Besides, it'd require upgrading forum software, or some major hacking of the code.

Purple Reign, That could get very costly very quick. You could however get some sort of "shell account" on a dedicated machine, and store images there. They will sometimes give ya upto 500megs for like 25 dollars a month. If you are willing to host images for users and such on your companies T1, it would probly get saturated pretty quick. T1's are only 1.5mbit/sec.. My cable modem can download faster than it could spit the data out.. a few of us could easily saturate it 10mbit/sec is almost the least you should look into. Ethernet access should be cheap depending on your location.

My apollogies for making this huge, I just hadda go over it and respond to most of the questions that needed an opinion

James Z
Cliff Pennock SEP 21, 05:25 PM
Ok, sorry for the "long time no hear". I missed a day due to a migraine attack (darn, first one in almost a year) and I'm trying to do some renovations around the house (need an extra room ).

Anyway, the images posted on the Fiero server take up about 50% of the total traffic. This is not all too strange if you consider almost 35,000 pictures were posted to my server in the past 9 months!

Now, I will keep those images on the server so old threads wil not have their pictures missing. I have disabled PIP for uploading to my server for now, but I see that a lot of people are offering space to post pictures to. That's great, it means you can still use pictures in your posts but my traffic will not skyrocket.

I'm looking at some alternatives right now, because I really like to offer PFF's members the whole package. There's even a small chance I can get the US image server up again. I mean, the server is sitting there doing nothing - waiting for a connection to the internet.

Anyway, I'll keep you updated. in the mean time, I would like to thank everybody for their help!

Roylmohr SEP 21, 10:35 PM
I would have killed the sigs and the pics in the quotes to begin with. I agree that you have to do what you have to do though Cliff.
Mickey_Moose SEP 22, 10:23 AM
Not sure if this is true everyplace, but with my cable connection, it does come with 10 megs of space per email. I have found this is enough space to host my own pictures, if not I could always create another email account

So my question here is, why, if this web space is available to everyone, why do you not use it? You are paying for the space why not use it, plus it saves Cliff the traffic.

Sigs >> never really understood the whole purpose to these...but ti could just be me

Tim

Fiero5 SEP 22, 01:21 PM
So then I would assume that the user name and password log in that pops up now on PIP doesn't really mean anything?

Steve

rogergarrison SEP 22, 03:54 PM
Im probably right behind ya Archie Im now using my own ISP to post pics since I guess it dont affect the forums running.
PURPLE REIGN SEP 22, 04:18 PM
 
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Originally posted by Dave Gunsul:

I don't mean to pick on Shaun here but i agree on this. In fact, i don't understand why people quote pics at all. When you quote someone just freaking edit the pic out! It takes about two seconds to do and would save a ton of banwidth. This happens day after day and multiple times in a single thread sometimes.
Seriously people, lets do some thinking here. I've noticed a lot of huge sigs too. Do you really need a sig that goes across the whole bottom of the screen??
What about animated sigs? I thought Cliff said no animated sigs or smileys but i notice them more and more. Yeah it's funny sometimes but you're draining off a valuable resource here from a guy that's giving it for free. I like to be able to post pics about events and articles like Tinas Car Craft appearence. Or pics for tech questions. A pic is worth a thousand words when answering a tech question. If everyone would be just a bit more conservative it would help and even a little bit would help some.
I'm not above this either. As i think back i know i've posted a bunch of pics in threads sometimes when 1 or 2 would have done fine. Time to tighten the belt a bit i think.


Hey Dave.........I was merely making a point & being funny by quoting it, normally I would delete the image but that was my point..............Sooooo the other day when I microwaved my Jello...............yeah

84Bill SEP 23, 01:26 PM
Cliff, God bless you man. You have NEVER done us wrong (though some will argue) to date.
A picture can say 1000 words but there are not enough words of priase I can use to describe what you have cultivated here.

If it means I can't post a picture to a PFF server that is nothing compaired to NOT HAVING THIS FORUM!

I will do what I can for you and your forum.
Yes I did say your forum Cliff.

Thanks so much to all of those who "pay the rent" for all of us PFF members (and lurkers) to enjoy.