Photo uploads and scalability

Ian Evans ianevans at digitalhit.com
Sat Sep 1 08:42:20 UTC 2012


On 01/09/2012 3:06 AM, "Paweł Marzec - cojestgrane.pl" wrote:
> upload_module removes uploaded files from body and replaces them with
> paths to temporary files where there are stored at end.
>
> So your backend don't have to parse body again to extract files from it.
> Parsing costs memory & cpu.
>
> If you upload photos, they will land on disk. Your backend can analyze
> them briefly, make first thumb to be shown back to user and ask/schedule
> other workers to make scalling/rotating and any image processing you
> want to be done later in real background.
>
> I'm happy user of upload_module ;-)
> in tandem with uploadprogress_module
>
> It is easy to setup, very.
>
> imho: it's worthwhile
>

Is there an article or tutorial that show examples of how to set the 
module up? I've been looking around and see that some people are using 
it with the a plugin called plupload. Any experience with that?



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