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Questions tagged [images]

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Storing a million images in the filesystem

I have a project that will generate a huge number of images. Around 1,000,000 for start. They are not large images so I will store them all on one machine at start. How do you recommended on storing these images efficiently? (NTFS file system…
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How to extract Only the file name from the request uri

I am trying to rewrite the request uri depending on the extension of the file, then extract only the file name from the uri and store it in another folder. The problem here is no predefined variable for file name and the available variables uri,…
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What happens if you don't sysprep an image?

I've been researching WDS and other imaging tools, and the best practice seems to be to sysprep the master machine before imaging. However, where I've been working they simply build a machine then use Ghost to create an image. I asked them about…
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Amazon S3 not sending Content-Type header

I have an application that downloads content from various sources. It relies on the "Content-Type" header being set on images. The majority of web-servers do this correctly but it appears Amazon S3 server is not setting the Content-Type. I assume…
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Possbile to port a KVM VM to Amazon EC2?

We currently have our own servers that have multiple KVM guests. If we ever decide to move to the Amazon EC2, would it possible to simply copy the VM image over or would I need to begin reconfiguring a new VM again on the cloud? (It might sound…
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Whats the best filesystem for managing millions of images?

I am designing a system capable of working with 15 million (and growing) image files ranging from 100k to 10mb. I am looking for some opinions on what may be the best filesystem to support the (somewhat) odd requirements: Additional…
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Why would a Image Hosting website, such as Imgur, use AWS EC2 instances over S3 buckets for uploads?

I was reading a Q&A with the creator of Imgur, and he went into detail explaining the server infrastructure that Imgur runs on. Here's a small quote from what he had to say: Most of the clusters use c1.xlarge instances. The upload cluster handles…
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What's the best way to store thousands of images in a windows folder structure?

We have hundreds of thousands of jpg images in a windows folder structure like this but it's really hard to interact and work with them in a snappy way (listing takes time, copying takes time, etc). Here's the structure: images/ 1/ 10001/ …
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WordPress not resizing images with Nginx + php-fpm and other issues

Recently i setup a Ubuntu 12.04 VPS with 512mb/1ghz CPU, Nginx + php-fpm + Varnish + APC + Percona's MySQL server + CloudFlare Pro for our Ubuntu LoCo Team's WordPress blog. The blog get about 3~4k daily hits, use about 180MB and 8~20% CPU.…
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How to distinguish between virtual disk image formats?

There is huge number of different formats for virtual storage files for desktop and server purposes (vmdk, qcow2, vdi, vdk, etc.). I'm writing a little script for manipulating them and would like the script to be able to distinguish between them. Of…
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Apache Options in .htaccess file

I am using Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews within a .htaccess file that is stored within 1 folder above the images folders, but this causes issues for seeing the images in these directories when outputted onto the page via a URL. Once I remove…
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htaccess rewrite /dir/*.jpg to /dir/webp/*.webp only when webp file exists

I'm trying to rewrite all website files (*.jpg|*.gif|*.png) to *.webp in a subdir, but only when the *.webp file exists. Previous and new files have the same name, only changing the extension and *.webp files are all under subdir of the original…
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Convert VMDK images into AMI images

I have setup and environment for building the virtual machines in vmdk format and then use ec2 api tools to convert, bundle and upload it to the AWS Cloud. However, I am facing certain challenges in that. Created a virtual machine in vmdk…
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Backup Laptops/Desktops To Server Fast/Simply

Is there anyway to backup various laptops/desktops connected through my network to my server. I can put any kind of operating system on this server. I was thinking maybe there is some type of clonezilla that will work for this task. So yes I do…
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Serving images with IIS 7.5

My website has quite a lot (>1M) of different image files. I have separate subdomain for images. I do not need asp.net for them so I set it not to use .net framework. Maximum working processes is set to 50. Logging is disabled. Queue length is…
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