Posted by Manuel Lemos on 01/24/06 23:37

Hello,

on 01/22/2006 06:06 PM leegold said the following:
> There are a lot of PHP image gallery scripts out there. I wondered what
> would be the ones that would scale for very big collections and heavy use.
> Hundreds of users maybe thousands of users at a time and huge DBs of images.
> Provided I had the hardware...
>
> If you cited some names or links - I'd like to investigate it for my own
> personal techie interest.

The problem of image galleries is that they serve too many images at
once per page. This kills Web servers like Apache 1.x that need to fork
too many processes and that kills the database server if you use
persistent connections.

For serving too many images at once it is better to use a multithreaded
HTTP server like thttp. For the page scripts, you can use Apache as
usual. Read here for a more detailed explanation of the problem:

http://www.meta-language.net/metabase-faq.html#excessive-connections

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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