Hi guys, I manage a Brazilian free ads portal and recently I migrated the static files to rackspace cloud files [1] (Amazon S3 like). Now the site open much faster but the media files are still in the same server of django.
I couldn't migrate the dynamic media files to rackspace cloud files because I need to generate thumbnails for images. I'm a sorl thumbnail user and I'm very happy with it but it seems it will be no more supported [2] (at least no by the authors) and there is some functionalities (like custom storage) that I need and is not present in the current version. I want to make it possible to have the dynamic media files on a separated server, first because the boost on the site (2 connections opening the same time) and to cost cutting (a media server are cheaper as I can use a vps with nginx or even the rackspace cloud files). Do you have any advice? I already started searching for options and I found something: 1) I can have a pair of servers, the admin saves on the principal site and a cron job copies files to the secundary server (based on the timestamp). If a file is request on the 2nd server but it is not here yet, just redirect to the 1st server. 2) Use easy thumbnails [2], from Smiley Chris, one of the authors of sorl thumbnail. It seems pretty good. It solves one problem of thumbs in cloud server: the timestamp of the file is cached on the database (as amazon s3 ou rackspace cloud do not store it in the file). 3) I can have a pair of servers, the admin saves directly on the 2nd server (maybe through nfs). Did someone faced a similar problem? How do you solve it? Is there anything broken in my ideas? Best regards. http://rackspacecloud.com/ [1] http://code.google.com/p/sorl-thumbnail/wiki/Future [2] http://github.com/SmileyChris/easy-thumbnails [3] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
