External media library hosting?

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  • April 27, 2016 at 1:54 am #171675

    Paul Rogers
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    Do you have a recommended solution for external media library hosting? I’m needing a total off load of media to an as yet, undetermined, external host, not just for performance purposes.

    I am migrating a legacy app to a self hosted wordpress site using your theme. I have approx 25,000 plus images and approx 48,000 listings to import.
    I am hosting the Word Press site with a Digital Ocean droplet but there is no way I am going to allow 25,000+ images to exist in the same server.

    So I need an external host with HTTPS support for the media library as this will take care of future image hosting for my customers, as well as for the initial import.

    At this time I haven’t chosen the external host. I am looking at DropBox, Amazon S3, Flickr to name a few but before I choose I need to prove the concept.

    To achieve this I have looked at various CDN solutions for Word Press but none seem appropriate as most seem to either

    1) “mirror” the media library resulting in images still existing on the main server or

    2) Want to transfer the whole domain by taking over the DNS records which is also totally not what I want.

    After extensive researching I found the w3 Total Cache plugin seems to have the functionality I need, allowing me to set FTP credentials and host details, it looks like it allows me to totally offload all my media to an external host in a flexible way but after further research it seems that the w3 total cache plugin has clashes with your booster plugin which we are using to great effect.

    So, I need to know if you can recommend a plugin or a way to change word press to store and load media library content that is compatible with GeoDirectory?

    April 27, 2016 at 4:49 am #171736

    Paul Rogers
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    Just worked out that you don’t use the media library but the question remains similar. How to store images on a different host? This is a storage issue not a caching issue although caching is also important

    Thanks

    April 27, 2016 at 4:01 pm #180074

    Paolo
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    Hi Paul,

    at the moment there is no ready made solution for this. We’ll probably need to build an add-on or extend GD Booster to allow something similar.

    I know Stiofan started looking into integrating a CDN solution to GD Booster, but I don’t know how much has been done already.

    I’ve flag this for him so that he can update us, however I also need to inform you that this is not at the top of our priorities at the moment. The VAT system and extending the WP REST API with our endpoints have been requested by many more members, reason why we consider them more urgent.

    Thanks for your patience,

    April 27, 2016 at 4:19 pm #180082

    Paul Rogers
    Buyer
    Post count: 75

    Thank you, I look forward to hearing from Stiofan.

    April 28, 2016 at 1:42 pm #181080

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    Hi Paul,

    This is in our PM as a task but as Paolo mentioned it has a few things infront of it, it will be added soon but i cant give an exact time frame at the moment. Sorry i can’t be more help for now.

    Thanks,

    Stiofan

    April 28, 2016 at 2:02 pm #181148

    Paul Rogers
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    I have seen in other threads that I could possibly change some code tyo make this work, could you at least give me some pointers?

    April 28, 2016 at 2:14 pm #181155

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    Have you decided on a solution? If so does it do a like for like url such as /2016/04/image.jpg? It might be possible to just strip replace any media urls from the page out put.

    Stiofan

    April 29, 2016 at 8:21 am #181641

    Paul Rogers
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    Hhmm! Now that’s a thought any suggestions as to how that might be done? Maybe adjust the wp_get_attachment_image_url through a filter or hook?
    A Javascript solution feels a a little too flakey.

    If I can get this working I’ll let you know how I get on

    April 30, 2016 at 6:19 pm #182819

    urbanfix
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    Hi, just want to stay up-to-date with this 🙂
    (email notif..)
    Thanks,
    UF

    May 2, 2016 at 4:54 pm #183825

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
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    Settings added to allow GDB to use MaxCDN to serve files – ADDED

    If you would like to test this out before release please let me know.

    Thanks,

    Stiofan

    May 2, 2016 at 5:40 pm #183907

    Paul Rogers
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    Absolutely! How would I go about testing before release?

    Thanks.

    May 2, 2016 at 5:44 pm #183909

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    if you can provide FTP details i’ll update in in your install direct?

    Stiofan

    May 2, 2016 at 5:55 pm #183918

    Paul Rogers
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    May 2, 2016 at 6:00 pm #183921

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    user does not seem to have the correct permissions, have u got FTP credentials?

    Stiofan

    May 2, 2016 at 6:18 pm #183931

    Paul Rogers
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