New Site Feature Image Caching and MiFBody.com

[meissen]

Hey guys,

I found a new mod for VB4 that I think is going to be freaking awesome. Anytime someone uses the [img][/img] tags, if the image is not hosted on MiFbody itself, then the server will download the image, save it locally to the hard drive, and edit your post to point the image to the new local version.

So if you post something with pictures and say the pictures get deleted from whoever was hosting them - it won't matter because we'll now have a local cache of that image! Pretty cool!

[81DaytonaPaceCar]

Hey guys,

I found a new mod for VB4 that I think is going to be freaking awesome. Anytime someone uses the [img][/img] tags, if the image is not hosted on MiFbody itself, then the server will download the image, save it locally to the hard drive, and edit your post to point the image to the new local version.

So if you post something with pictures and say the pictures get deleted from whoever was hosting them - it won't matter because we'll now have a local cache of that image! Pretty cool!

With as picture-happy as we are, what is that going to do to server storage size?

[Phantom409]

Hey guys,

I found a new mod for VB4 that I think is going to be freaking awesome. Anytime someone uses the [img][/img] tags, if the image is not hosted on MiFbody itself, then the server will download the image, save it locally to the hard drive, and edit your post to point the image to the new local version.

So if you post something with pictures and say the pictures get deleted from whoever was hosting them - it won't matter because we'll now have a local cache of that image! Pretty cool!

With as picture-happy as we are, what is that going to do to server storage size?

Sounds cool B but I'm with Jeff here.
Is it going to be big enough for us and our picture happy post

[meissen]

I'll monitor it and see how much we start using. Right now we have 626GB out of 696GB free.

[Phantom409]

Give us time

[04DetroitLS]

screw storage, whats it going to do to the bandwith usage

sounds cool though, now I wont have to worry about maxxing out my photobucket account

[Phantom409]

Where are they stored at B and can we get at them?
Link?

[sman]

VERY COOL! How long has this been up? I posted a picture localy from my machine and it uploaded it and posted here all in one step like your describing. But that was days ago.

[meissen]

Where are they stored at B and can we get at them?
Link?

Stored in a private directory that isn't able to be browsed and the images are stored with " .imgcache" as the extension rather than .jpg etc.

[2002Z4CSS]

Nice feature!