Posted by dimo414 on 02/26/07 01:40

> ...my advice to you would be to pay a little more and get a second server
> for the image rendering. Or else get a new service with better servers. :P

I disagree - certainly, if you /absolutely need/ to render the image
every time then you're going to have to do something drastic like
getting a second server. But it's much faster and more efficient to
pre-render it when there isn't server load, then save it to the
server. I'm not sure what you're trying to do with these images, but
if you're resizing them, for instance, you should do all resizing at
upload, and save all the images to the server. This means more demand
on the hard drive, but FAR less demand on the server overall.

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