Hey, I am creating a site where people can upload pictures of themselves and lots of the pictures will more then likely from some sort of digital camera so the images will be sort of large ebough. I want to know with the space on frihost what do you think the limit should be?
I was also thinking of if the image was very large have links to some image hosting sites so they can be hosted there.
Hmm... 
I'd think 100-120k per image would be more than enough to produce a compressed .jpg image that would still be large enough to show good detail & clarity.
It's so easy to abuse bandwidth & storage space.
Yeah, I definitely suggest making mention of image hosting sites (such as PhotoBucket.com) for any image larger than the limit you specify.
Lots of luck with your project, ncwdavid! 
Thanks for that. I really had no idea what size it should be. Once again thanks for the help and the really fast reply!
large images 800*600 means atleast 200 kb. and 640*480 is way too small again for sharing and showing off!!
anyways whatever the format is... make it atleast 1MB per image file so that your users wont get frustrated and stop using the site.
hahahahaha
You both suggested a very lower limit.
Listen Friends!!!!! I have some JPEG compressed images with size 3MB+ (mega bytes).
Now what is this??????
If you are going to start an image hosting site, be sure to keep the maximum beyond all possibllities. This is the reason why most image hosting services like offer 5MB max.
I 2 suggest you to keep the limit 4 mb atleast. But if you want to keep the diskspace safe its your choice to do whatever you want.
Hope you understand my point.
Please also tell the name of your hosting site.
yeah but u known a 3 MB jpeg will take forever to load. lolz so why bother uploading such a huge file!
anyways he has to do a load of coding here. good luck to him.
no i mean to say if you are going to start a service, why nott make it available to all class of people??
also, not everyone has DialUp or Shared LAN.
The images i m talking about has resolution 3008X2000.
if you are making this site for image hosting then you should purhcase enough space to keep them. 200 - 300 kb restrcition will not work for image hosting service. there should atleast 5-6mb restriction for an image as high resolution pictures require more disk space.
but if you want to give picture uploading for profiles etc.. then this is not a big issue. use some open source library to resize/compress image. no matter how much big picture some one uploads resize/compress that to desired size. this way you can manage your space in an effective way.
| Quote: |
if you are making this site for image hosting then you should purhcase enough space to keep them. 200 - 300 kb restrcition will not work for image hosting service. there should atleast 5-6mb restriction for an image as high resolution pictures require more disk space.
but if you want to give picture uploading for profiles etc.. then this is not a big issue. use some open source library to resize/compress image. no matter how much big picture some one uploads resize/compress that to desired size. this way you can manage your space in an effective way. |
Friend can you please give me links to image resizing and compression utilities.this is best php class for image manipulation, offers resize, thumbnails, watermarks etc...
http://www.verot.net/php_class_upload.htm
Thank you for the good link
I downloaded the script and trying to test .
regards
